Hello, > > However, it's also got a lot of packages in "Obsolete" sections. What > > do I do with these? > > Obsolete/local packages is packages that: ... > 3. in any other way is obsolete or local... ;)
Actually, dselect uses "Obsolete/local" for anything that doesn't exist at the site it's looking at. This means that: *if you point it at a "non-us" server, it'll show most of the standard distribution as Obsolete/local *if you point it at a US server, it'll show all non-us packages as Obsolete/local *if you point it at the main CD, it'll show all contrib packages as Obsolete/local (and vice versa) et cetera What to do with them: if they're things you want, leave them as they are. If they're things you don't want, uninstall them. If they're libraries, I suppose you press "-" on them and see if anything pops up in the dependency screen (and then use "R" if it's something important). Just like any other package, I guess, with the proviso that you can't re-install them from the place dselect is looking at right now (so if you change your mind later, you'll have to find out where you got them from first.) Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
