Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: Yet another apt/deselect question
	Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:43:23PM -0700

In reply to:Paul Mackinney

Quoting Paul Mackinney(paul@mackinney.net):
> I keep getting the same pattern of behavior from apt and dselect, but I
> can't quite figure out what's happening. Can someone explain what's 
> going on?
> 
> I'm running Woody. When I apt-get update; apt-get install, I always get
> the following message:
> 
>   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4  not upgraded.
> 
> where 4 is an arbitrary number corresponding to the updated packages
> since my last update. Next I run dselect. Without changing any package
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You didn't update the dselect available list tho, only apt-get's.  try
doing your update like this  apt-get update && dselect update, which
updates both lists.

I haven't run dselect in years so won't comment it's operation.
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