Hi Shawn, you wrote on Sat, Mar 20 1999:
>In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because >it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink >resolve this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the >resolution? You may have overlooked it: there was an apt in the original hamm distribution, maybe a little hidden in directory tools on the first (binary) CD. Could be installed with "dpkg -i /mnt/cdrom/(path)/apt..." In dselect you then got the option "apt-get", switch to that, configure /etc/apt/sources.list correctly, select your packages with dselect (helps resolving conflicts), then quit dselect (don't install with it!) and issue in the shell "apt-get dselect-upgrade". This prevented the ennoying check of all packages already in hamm. But you had to mount the cd-rom first (dselect did that for you if it wasn't already mounted). I'm still on hamm, but I see no reason, why this shouldn't work with slink or potato. Kind regards Frederick -- Why don't cannibals eat clowns? They taste funny.
