Re: dselect thinks it is not installed....
All is OK now.
I did a
dpkg --clear-avail
and started a fresh source.list and all the dependencies were sorted
out.
there is something very uncomfortable about a broken woody...
joss
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:46:55AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:02, Joss Winn wrote:
> > I changed my sources.list file last night to include testing and
> > then decided to change it back to how it was (stable).
> >
> > dselect then wanted to change a few things which looked harmless enough.
> >
> > now, if i 'apt-get update' 'apt-get upgrade' everything looks fine and 0
> > packages need installing/removing, etc.
> >
> > however, if i go into dselect, it lists a load of dependencies and
> > won't allow me to leave the dependency menu. Also it thinks it
> > (dselect) is
> > not installed. 'dpkg -l dselect' also says dselect is not
> > installed, too.
>
> It probably isn't, then. :) dselect used to be in the dpkg package, it only
> became its own package after Woody.
>
>
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