Re: Problems with dselect: always wants to install same 71 packages
> I log in as root, and run dselect. I scroll through the
> packages selection list without changing anything.
You should probably use apt-get instead of dselect. Much less agony.
> I never selected any of those packages for installation. Why
> does dselect want to install them?
I'm not sure what dselect is doing, perhaps it is installing 'suggested'
packages as well as required ones. Apt-get only installs required packages.
Any optional junk you have to apt-get separately.
HTH
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