They easiest way to use dselect is to choose the source, then do not select extra packages outside of the defaults. Except scroll down and select apt. Then hit return. This will install the default base system. Later use "apt-get install" to install the mail client, mta, etc that you want. This will also save disk space.
NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > At 11:51 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: > >We are attracting windows users and they > >come to us with no linux experience. I tryed > >debian a while ago <snip> and became so > >frustrated with dselect that I gave up twice. > > Exactly true. I used apt-get to install Slink and believe apt-get is > excellent. The issue for me is that it needs a top level package selection > system. For example. It would be nice to have a category called "mail > transport agents" and one called "mail clients". I would browse the list of > candidate packages and make my choice. Then apt-get would find all the > dependencies and install them. > > There should also be a top-level package "remove" option that would remove a > package and all orphaned dependencies. I'll bring this idea up with the > apt-get maintainer but I wanted to let people know that I found apt-get to be > much easier to use than dselect. Until I installed apt-get, I had given up on > dselect and was simple downloading packages and running dpkg recursively until > I got a given package fully installed. > > Disclaimer: I am a Debian amateur so my comments may be uninformed. > > -- > Copyright(c) 1998 Lyno Sullivan; this work is free and may be > copied, modified and distributed under the GNU Library General > Public License (LGPL) <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html> and > it comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
