Re: installing packages -- alternatives to dselect?
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pat Greenwood wrote:
>
> > IIci system 7.5.3 20/1G 600M Linux partition 60M swap 68030 33.6 dial-up
> > stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99.
> > I have just the basic system installed.
> >
> > Dselect shows I have selected 105 packages to get. dselect Install shows
> > I have to get 526k of 29M left to get. 'looks like wmakerconf-data
> > (stable main) is 100% received but dselect won't go on to get whatever
> > is left.
>
> What messages do you get when you run [I]nstall? Have you tried running
> [I]nstall again?
>
> Occasionally the Packages file has an error and the available version of a
> package may be different. In that case, it might be better to unselect
> that file and run install to let the other packages complete the
> installation process, then go back and figure out what the problem is.
>
> >
> > If you mark more than one site to retrieve stable main contrib non-free
> > files from, will dselect go back and forth between them to get the
> > packages or will it recognize one as being redundant and just ignore it?
> >
> > Logically it seems like the more effective way to apt-get files in
> > dselect would be to mark a number of different sites, even if you're
> > trying to get the same files from all of them. But I ended up getting
> > here using just http://http.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
> > non-free.
> >
> > I'm going to try to figure out what is left and try to bypass dselect.
> > The mail archives seem to be saying to do this via dpkg directly
> > somehow. Any suggestions?
> >
> > My expectation: once dselect Install runs its course entirely and I
> > [C]onfigure, [S]elect will show that all my selected packages are
> > installed. Currently [S]elect just shows them marked for install, even
> > though almost all of them have apparently been retrieved from the site.
> > When they are all marked as installed then will I be able to read man
> > pages and run window maker, for example? Or will I then have to manually
> > unpack installed packages or do something else to get them ready to
> > work?
>
> They all get retrieved first, then installed. Sometimes you have to run
> install more than once, although this is rare with the apt method in
> dselect. After the packages are installed, they are ready for use.
>
> Bob
>
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Update from pegreenwood:
Last night I went at it using apt-get install to try to get some of the
hung-up packages. This worked and I then finished off running dselect
again. Everything except gcc_2.7.2.3-7.deb unpacked and set up, so I'll
be fumbling around for awhile now until I break down and buy a book.
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