According to Wolfgang Gernot Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I normally do FTP-updates/installs but sometimes I download *.deb-files > and install them from "mounted-dir". I change access-method from ftp to > "mounted" and update the list. Installing works well but in the > "select"-list all packages I have installed are obsolete and the > packages which are not installed are not listed. I have to wait until > ftp-Packages-files change to get my list updated. > > Is this normal? You probably didn't download the Packages file that goes with the *deb files. I you choose "update" in dselect then it overwrites its internal list of available Packages (/var/lib/dpkg/available) and therefore doesn't know about the other (even already installed) packages. I hope I got that right myself. Please correct me.
The way I install some separately downloaded *deb files is: dpkg -i <deb-file> That works and is a lot faster than going thru dselect, too. Bye, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
