Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better
understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I
decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could
get everything to work, but when I went to dselect to see what I wanted to
install so I could get a list of packages to download, it occurred to me
that I still have my original problem, that dselect gives me that "parse
error: duplicate value for user-defined field 'meta-package' in file
/var/cache/apt/available" or whatever it was, I wrote the exact error
message in my posting that started this thread. That was the root of all the
problems. Dselect won't process the packages list, and if I delete the lists
so that error doesn't occur then dselect won't have any package list for me
to choose from. Dselect doesn't do much good without a list of available
packages, but when it has this list it gives some error that I really have
no idea what it means. I don't know what to do here, since I can't delete
the list of packages, which makes dselect useless, nor apparently does it
want to work with the list either. How can I cure whatever it is that ails
dselect? Thanks for your help, I love you guys that have helped me.
Tommy McDaniel
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