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Re: aptitude, dselect, synaptic at the same time



On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:41:05AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:12:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses
> > dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections
> > and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead
> > to an utter state of confusion?
> 
> my expirience is, that apt-get and dselect say something completly
> different. i have been using aptitude and apt-get only with no more
> problems. maybe may question would be - could i uninstall dselect - is
> that even possible without making problems in dpkg system?

(apt-get and aptitudes) and dselect use different database.

just run "dselect update" before doing "dselect select".  Then you
should get same result, I think.

Osamu
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