installing packages -- alternatives to dselect?
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.
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?
Pat Greenwood
Omaha
pegreenw@ne.uswest.net
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