Package: dselect
Version: 1.18.2
Followup-For: Bug #794977
I'm not sure if this helps, but the http method seems to have dissappeared:
mdione@mustang:~$ dpkg -L dselect | grep methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/update
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.mounted
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.harddisk
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.nfs
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.cdrom
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/names
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/install
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/update
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/setup
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_nfs
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_mount
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_cd
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/names
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/desc.ftp
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/names
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/update
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/install
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/update
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/setup
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/desc.floppy
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/names
while we're at it, does the floppy method have any use? maybe usb drives?
also: this is a i386 machine, so Alexi Suhonen's suggestion did not
work (it only has /usr/lib). using aptitude meanwhile...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.2
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-15
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1
ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-15
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1
dselect recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dselect suggests:
ii perl 5.20.2-6
-- no debconf information
