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Re: Finding missing packages



On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:51:49PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> On 2001.11.27 22:04 jennyw wrote:
> > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed
> > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I
> > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for
> > example).
> > The Gnome Control Panel was missing. A few other things, too ...
> > 
> > Is there a way to grab all this stuff at once?  Like install
> > everything for Gnome and X that the initial installer would install
> > without blowing away the existing config?
> 
> Are you installing manually?
> Do you have the "apt" package installed?
> 
> I use apt-get and I don't have the difficulties you describe, though I 
> would have them if I used dselect or installed manually.

Why would using dselect cause problems like that? If anything, it tends
to create a more functional system, since it installs recommended
packages and tells you about suggested packages, neither of which
apt-get does.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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