@Paul Flint use apt-get -y (assumes 'yes' to all questions with vague
degree of intelligence; see the man page)
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Title:
dpkg --set-selections : d
Greetings,
sudo apt-get install dselect
sudo dselect update
Did now work for me. :^(
What I ended up doing was to take the package file, which contains lines
like this:
acl install
and, using a text editor (maybe eventually sed or awk :^) made them
This isn't a bug. If you don't keep the available file up to date
(using dselect update), you can't expect the other dselect features
(like apt-get dselect-upgrade) to work.
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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Also affects 64-bit version:
dpkg version 1.17.5 (amd64) in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)
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Title:
dpkg --set-selections : dpkg: warning: package no
Also affects dpkg version 1.17.5ubuntu5.3 in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr),
at least the 32-bit release.
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Title:
dpkg --set-selections : dpkg: warni
I can confirm that sudo dselect update fixes the problem for me, too.
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Title:
dpkg --set-selections : dpkg: warning: package not in database
To
Doing the following fixes this problem for me
sudo apt-get install dselect
sudo dselect update
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Title:
dpkg --set-selections : dpkg: warning: p
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
dpkg
** Description changed:
dpkg --set-selections does not work any more to find packages that have
not already been installed on the system. If new packages are
introduced, an error is produced with no effect on the selections. In
the example below, "tidy" has not yet been installed on the
