Re: dselect broke when updating to potato
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:32:48PM -0400, Edward Di Geronimo Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The other day I updated my system from slink to potato, and now dselect
> and apt are broken. First off, if I go into dselect and choose Access,
> Update, or Install, it exits out to the shell with the error:
>
> dselect: unable to access method script
> `/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/charset/setup': Not a directory
>
> The other dselect choices work.
>
> "apt-get update" works, however, "apt-get install" always says:
>
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
>
> regardless of what I chose in dselect.
This is not the way to use apt.
You either apt-get install packagename
or use dselect and then apt-get dselect-upgrade
> I can't install or update anything
> with apt right now. I can still install packages with dpkg -i. I tried
> downloading a new version of the dpkg package a few minutes ago, however,
> it didn't make a difference.
don't know about the first problem you mention, though
hope this helps
Marcin
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