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Re: broken installation



This comes up frequently but is being fixed by the new diety.

You have to recycle through the install phase until it's all installed.
Each time it will install more because the dependencies are satisfied.

The current dselect doesn't use dependant order.

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that
> were broken; they installed but are unconfigured.  Mostly they have
> dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages.  Libraries of
> other files of the same name were redundant in several packages.  What do
> you do in a case like this?  
> 
> I 'forced' downloading them and figured I could work out the details
> later, even if I had to configure by hand.  Is this customary for ftp
> installs?
> 
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> 
>             * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * *
> 
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--Rick

rickya@siservices.net


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