oops. I was just pointing to the /debian directory. While poining at hamm all the packages that were missing reappeared. However, specifying the directories "main, non-free, contrib" won't find .deb files even though it updated. hrmph. I'll look around tonight and see if I can find the right directories.
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Okay, that makes sense then. But how can I now get dselect to list all > > the available packages at ftp.debian.org and not just the ones on my CD? > > > > > Once you ran update (while pointed to hamm on ftp.debian.org) you > should have a list of all files of Debian 2.0 in dselect. All installed > packages are listed first, followed by uninstalled packages. Since hamm > hasn't changed in a while, I've been updating against slink for the > latest packages. > What do think is missing? Is there something specific you are looking > for?
