Re: dselect taking a _looong_ time
Erik Forsberg <forsberg@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local
> nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's
> skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :)
>
> I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just
> install the packages I've asked for, and quit. Without taking half a
> year listing all availiable packages.
>
> Am I wrong ? Where do I RTFM ?
Set up the NFS in /etc/fstab and use the mountable method.
Or install apt from slink.
Jens
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