Re: Apt, dpkg and dselect on non-debian system (RH)

[Ingo Saitz <Ingo.Saitz@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

MoiN

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:28:06PM +0100, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> When entering options:
> [A,U]: dselect: unable to read `/usr/local/lib/dpkg/methods/' directory
> for reading methods: Permission denied # how to change this ?  

Probably setting Dir::Bin::methods in the apt.conf file will
help. Also make sure, APT_CONF is set even when running dselect.
You can check your current apt configuration with "apt-config
dump"

> [S] - it's working, but there is less packages then there should be.

Thich will change after "dselect update" is working :)

> And how to add to dselect apt method of downloading deb's ?

Just make sure there is an apt dir in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods (or
wherever you changed that dir to).

    Ingo
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