Re: [aclug-L] Debian package management

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help, Dale.

>Make sure you tell it to [scan] for packages when you
>enter the location for local files.

Ah! This is the piece I missed before. Now it found the new debs...

>  Be very careful to check dependancies, (as if it would let you do
otherwise)
>as sometimes changing one thing will break 10 others.

Yeah, this is what happened.  What a mess.  The new XFree86 wanted a new
libc6, which wanted some other stuff.  Downloaded those from the unstable
tree at debian.org. Then there was a libc6-dev, which wanted the OLD libc6.
There wasn't an updated libc6-dev out there, so I guess I'm sunk at trying
to get this stuff to work.

Beyond that...despite the fact that I never executed the Install step in
dselect, it seems to retain what you did in the last session (mistakenly or
otherwise).  Yuck.  I think I got it all sorted back out again.  Hopefully
didn't deinstall anything important.

This brings up another question.  If you have to have the main distribution
CD in there for dselect every time you add or remove packages, how do you
install stuff from the other CDs that come in the set?  (contrib / non-free
/ source)

Either dselect is totally counterintuitive, or I'm clearly missing some key
bit of information about how it works.

Thanks very much,
Greg

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