Bill Wagner wrote: > > When I run tasksel (this is on testing/unstable) as root, I get this: > > juan:~# tasksel > No tasks found on this system. > Did you update your available file? > > If I do a 'tasksel -a', I get the menu, I select what needs to get > selected, but it just says that it doesn't have anything to do: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > I just ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after reading someone else's post the > other day, but that didn't seem to help this particular issue. > > I'm new to Debian so I'm not familiar to which file tasksel is > referring. Can anyone pass any info my way?
I think it uses dpkg, which needs a list of where to get or download packages. Maybe you have no sources list. You can create one by running dselect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]