Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote:
>> I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core,
>> and fiddling with package selections using dselect,
>> and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages:
>
> DO NOT USE dselect!
>
>         apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade (or dist-upgrade)
>
> Then look and see what apt wants to do.

Discouraging the use of the APT frontends (dselect, aptitude, gnome-apt,
etc.) is generally very poor advice.  If anything, apt-get is the
command that should be discouraged.

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