Dale Scheetz writes ("dselect and the R and D keys"): > The help screen on these two keys seems to indicate that they will change > the desire of dselect to install everything. I have seen no results from > the use of these keys. If no one can explain my misunderstanding I will > make a bug report for this issue. You want H and G. R and D are for overriding default selections of packages and for overriding dependencies. Ian.