Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and >suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages >and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had >a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped >here. Is there a way to find this out ahead of time? >
I've done this, though as I'm not on my debian system, and it is a little while since I've used dselect, so I may not be quite accurate. Within "access methods", you select the main, contrib, non-free sections. You can also select a local archive as well, and get dselect to automatically generate a packages file for it. In case it makes a difference, I NFS mounted a debian mirror (local to my university), and told dselect to use a mounted filesystem (ie I didn't get dselect to do the NFS mounting for me). I then had a directory (/root/debian-local I think) which contained various local packages. I'm not sure whether this will work for the FTP access method. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
