Re: dselect
Are you mounting your cd drive? You need to mount the drive before dselect.
Also, is everything going correctly when you choose install method (the menu item).
Select "apt" or "cdrom."
Erik Ryberg
FreeMan wrote:
> I think my list isn't as long as you think. There are just 7 pages -
> that's all and I just can't find Samba. As I already told, it seems to
> there are only packages displaied, which are already installed.
> I already tried the search function but after typing in "samba", I just
> hear a short beep and the cursor jumps back to the begining of the
> list.
> What do I have to do, to see all available packages?
>
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:44:01PM +0800, FreeMan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > how can I add new packages with dselect? I tried "Select", but it
> > > seems that only already installed packages are shown in the list.
> > > (I want to install e.g. "samba").g. "samba")
> >
> > dselect displays newly-available packages first, then installed
> > packages for which there is an upgrade, then other installed packages,
> > finally packages which are not installed. It takes a lot of paging to
> > work your way down the list.
> >
> > You can search for samba by typing "/samba". This will find the first
> > occurance. Typing "\" will show subsequent occurances of "samba" in a
> > package name.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2) nielsen@primenet.com
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> >
> >
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