RE: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

[Alec Clews <Alec.Clews@merant.com>]

Maybe you should use 'dpkg <path_to_debfile>' in this situation.

 

Yes deselect is awkward

 

And I'm using Windows 2K and MS Outlook :-(((

 

-----Original Message-----
From: hzi [mailto:hzi@uol.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 15:03
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Dselect - a difficult beast to tame

Good people of the community-

 

    Why on God' s green earth didn't developers ever think of end users when they made dselect?

    I simply can't understand why it doesn't accept a simple path (e.g., /cdrom/debian/potato) to some files I burned on a CD! Is there any easy way? Any documentation?

    It seems irrational that developers didn't make it accept a simple path to files...I can't install a browser in Debian, so here I am, using Windows...

    Somebody help!!

 

    Thanks

    Henry