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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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Stephen W. Juranich                             sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering             http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington                http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli


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