On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: DO NOT USE dselect! apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade (or dist-upgrade) Then look and see what apt wants to do. > 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 396 downgraded, 605 to remove and 0 not upgraded > > I'm using "unstable", and mostly, it's been stable. I run > about 10 Debian systems. > > 1. How do I restore this to a sane (no pun intended) configuration? > > 2. How the heck does one figure out what dependency causes this insanity? > > 3. Is it possible to have xsane and gimp 2 installed at the same time? I only use dselect for updates or: dselect update Force of habit and to cure that dselect itch... then I use: apt-get -u updgrade or apt-get -u dist-upgrade Other than refreshing available... dselect is dead for me !!! -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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