On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:32:48PM -0400, Edward Di Geronimo Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > The other day I updated my system from slink to potato, and now dselect > and apt are broken. First off, if I go into dselect and choose Access, > Update, or Install, it exits out to the shell with the error: > > dselect: unable to access method script > `/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/charset/setup': Not a directory > > The other dselect choices work. > > "apt-get update" works, however, "apt-get install" always says: > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. > > regardless of what I chose in dselect.
This is not the way to use apt. You either apt-get install packagename or use dselect and then apt-get dselect-upgrade > I can't install or update anything > with apt right now. I can still install packages with dpkg -i. I tried > downloading a new version of the dpkg package a few minutes ago, however, > it didn't make a difference. don't know about the first problem you mention, though hope this helps Marcin -- -------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------
