Re: task problem

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Sorry for the long delay in response.

Olivier Delemar <delemar@mimosa.ceng.cea.fr> writes:

> Le ven 16 fév 2001 à 10:46:50 -0700, Randolph Chung écrivait :
> > ok, i'm very confused about all the "equations". the only thing tasksel
> > does is mark packages for install by apt. what i'd suggest is that, from
> > a clean install, run tasksel -riq manually, select the task you want to
> > install, and then run apt-get install and send the output to the BTS.
> 
> 	Excuse me but I don't understand what I should do. Tasksel
> tels:
> 
> tasksel [options]; where options is any combination of:
> ...
>         -q -- queue installs; do not install packages with apt-get;
>                 just queue them in dpkg
>         -r -- install all required-priority packages
>         -i -- install all important-priority packages
> ...
> 
> and when I run "tasksel -riq", nothing happens, whichever package I
> select.

Yes, that's called 'queue' mode.  There is something happening, it's
setting the selections for installation.

> In addition, "apt-get install" requires at least one package
> name as an argument. Which one should I give on the command line?

Hmm.... sorry.  It's either 'apt-get -f install' or perhaps 'apt-get
dselect-upgrade' ?

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