Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> writes:
> 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.
Discouraging the use of the APT frontends (dselect, aptitude, gnome-apt,
etc.) is generally very poor advice. If anything, apt-get is the
command that should be discouraged.
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