*- On 21 Sep, Martin Waller wrote about "bizarre dselect front end differencs..." > Hello, > > I have a couple of systems at home. One is an upgraded from hamm-slink box, > and the other is installed as slink staright away. > > Dselect on the first (upgraded from hamm) does not include the 'multi CD' > option on the front end - this was of no consequence until I installed slink > on another machine and it had the multi-cd option (without it, stuff from CD > 2 gets out in 'obsolete/local' pacakages when CD 1 is being read). > > I guess aomething screwed up on the upgrade, but both dselect --version and > dpkg --version report the same version numbers on both computers. > > I want the multi-CD option for dselect on both compoters > > Help please, >
Install the dpkg-multicd package. It is an extra package so it wouldn't be installed during an upgrade from hamm->slink. Package: dpkg-multicd Priority: extra Section: base Installed-Size: 61 Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.14 Replaces: dpkg-disk2 Conflicts: dpkg-disk2 Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg-multicd_0.14.deb Size: 19350 MD5sum: 5b8f55ca2b0d7c175099538ca3e12cd3 Description: Installation methods for multiple binary CDs This package provides three new methods to be used within dselect in order to access Debian binary package stored on multiple binary CD ROMS. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
