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. -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]