On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:41:05AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses > > dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections > > and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead > > to an utter state of confusion? > > my expirience is, that apt-get and dselect say something completly > different. i have been using aptitude and apt-get only with no more > problems. maybe may question would be - could i uninstall dselect - is > that even possible without making problems in dpkg system?
(apt-get and aptitudes) and dselect use different database. just run "dselect update" before doing "dselect select". Then you should get same result, I think. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
