Re: dselect install of deb package -- Where is it?
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:39:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> [Using Debian 3.1 Etch]
>
> I am bit confused. I read up on dselect and dpkg online and decided to
> install a program called kradio with dselect. I downloaded the .deb
> available on the author's site. In fact, I downloaded an earlier and a
> later version:
>
> kradio_0.3.0-snapshot-2004-02-28_i386.deb
> kradio_1.0beta1_kde34_i386.deb
>
> I decided to play it safe by installing the earlier one. dselect downloaded
> over 200 packages, mostly updated to make this possible. No problems. No
> error messages, everything fine in Synaptic.
>
> I now proceeded to install the deb. First, the earlier one, then the
> later one (please remember that I am using the latest files from
> Etch).
>
> But apparently, kradio never installed. I am perplexed by what the data below
> mean:
>
> localhost:/home/sher/DOWNLOADS# dselect install kradio_1.0beta1_kde34_i386.deb
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n] y
> Press enter to continue.
>
Use dpkg to install a .deb file.
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