On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:14:12PM +0000, D.L.WHITELEY wrote: > I have the CheapBytes 4 CD set. I was wondering if there is a clean > way of maintaining the dselect package list on my machine while also > installing stuff of the extra CDs.
The way I'd do this would be - dpkg --clear-available - for each CD, for each "distribtution": dpkg --merge-avail Packages - dselect [S]elect - dselect [I]nstall (first "main" CD, then "non-free" CD, then "contrib" CD). > If I copy a .deb file onto somewhere on my HD and use dpkg -i does this > update the list of packages reported when I run dselect again? It's included in dselect's list of installed packages; it is not added to the list of packages that are available to dselect. To add a single package to dselect's list of available packages, do dpkg --record-avail the.deb . HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
