Re: dselect

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:44:23AM -0600, Donald D. Daniel wrote:
> dselect worked perfectly.  Then I attempted to use it, instead of dpkg,
> to install a *.deb file off
> my disk.  I found my mistake, and sucessfully installed with dpkg -i.
> However, now dselect
> hangs on "update", and dselect cannot list any packages not on
> "binary-1".  I would be tempted
> to use dpkg to remove and reinstall dslect, but that might remove dpkg
> too, then I would have
> no way to re-install packages without erasing the disk and reinstalling
> the complete system.
> 
> How do I reinstall or re-initialize dslect?

Check the access method.  If it is cdrom, change it to apt.  If it is
already apt, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the "deb cdrom"
lines and rerun update.