I hope this will be simple...
I recently re-installed Debian. After revising my apt.sources list, as
well as a good 'ol dist-upgrade to bring my system up to Debian
3.0/unstable, I discovered an interesting problem:
For some reason, while apt-get has no problem with the change, 'dselect'
still thinks it's running Potato. It shows the current versions of the
software I have installed, however it still diplays/uses the
package-list from Potato.
This isn't much of a problem for the most part, because I just use
apt-get for package installation/maintenance. But, when I'm looking for
a package to install, I can't go to dselect and look up the proper
package name for apt-get. (This being because it has the old Potato
package list, and not the unstable package list). So, as an
alternative, I have to go to the Debian site, and use its query for the
package name(s). Which is a bit of a bandwidth & resource hog
considering the information should be on my computer already...
So, for instance, if I want to install GNOME, I look up 'gnome' within
dselect. However, only GNOME 1.0 is shown -- which is definately not
the version that is shown when I look it up on the Debian site.
So, how do I re-initialize dselect's package database so it shows the
'unstable' branch packages, rather than the 'potato' branch ones.
(I have already updated the apt sources list, as well as 'apt-get
dist-upgrade', so my distribution is the unstable one, and everything
but dselect seems to be fine.)
-Troy
