Package: dselect Version: 1.18.2 Followup-For: Bug #794977 Confirmed to be a path issue. Here, what fixed it was:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dpkg /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dpkg -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (1001, 'stable'), (1001, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-586 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.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 1:5.2.1-17 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-17 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.20.2-6 -- no debconf information