Package: dselect Version: 1.2.12 (a.out) and 1.2.11elf In upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 I had the following problem running dselect: The installation of perl failed because libgdbm was not installed, although the latter was selected. Instead of proceeding with the installation, which would obviously have solved the problem in a second run, it terminated. Only after stepping out and installing libgdbm by dpkg -iB by hand could I resume the installation by dselect. Fortunately, there was no similar problem with the other packages. The very same problem but with different packages (sorry, I forgot which), happened recently by making a fresh installation on a new computer. This time, the version of dselect was 1.2.11elf. Again, I solved the problem by dpkg -iB on the missing package which was selected but not processed because the installation stopped prematurely. (Rerunning it stopped always at the same point)
I guess that a quick fix would be to let the installation proceed and to ask for a further run at the end. -- Univ.-Doz. Dr. Anton Rebhan Inst. f. Theoret. Physik, Techn. Univ. Wien Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/136 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43-1-58801-5695 Fax: +43-1-5867760
