Re: dselect not working
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:06:29PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> the problem is that dselect is no longer found -- that is, I try to run
> it and the ocmmand line can't find the command (this istrue for root,
> oto, of course, I'm not quite so dense as to not try that). Here's the
> output of dpkg -l dpkg, which I must say sound ominous:
>
> matt@anarres:~$ dpkg -l dpkg
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Debian
That's not in the least ominous, it's perfectly normal.
Have you perhaps upgraded to dpkg 1.10 (in which dselect is split off
into a separate package) and then downgraded again, or something like
that?
Anyway, try downloading
ftp://ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb and
running 'dpkg -i dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb'. Reinstalling the package should
sort it out.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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