Re: Alternative to dselect?
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
>
> :: On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:53:03 -0400, Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
> said:
>
> >> Anyway - for those who find dselect to be non-intuitive: did you try
> >> console-apt? I don't know if there are any problems with it, but...
>
> > Well, here's what apt-get says:
>
> > Package console-apt has no available version, but exists
> > in the database. This typically means that the package
> > was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has
> > been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of
> > sources.list E: Package console-apt has no installation
> > candidate
>
> > That's on a Potato system with sources.list showing only potato
> > directories.
>
> Oops... sorry! I got it from woody. It's probably available in woody
> only (I should have noticed this).
>
> J.
>
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> Jeronimo Pellegrini
> Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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>
Wow! I just installed it and it looks MUCH nicer than dselect. However,
after marking something for installation, how do you actually tell capt
to install it? Neither the man pages nor the help screen indicated this
(or at least I didn't see it).
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