I use apt-get to keep this potato box up to date. However, I
often use dpkg -l to search for packages whose name I'm not
quite sure of. It was during one of these searches ('dpkg -l
syslog\*') that I noticed that the packages available
according to dpkg is different to that of dselect and
apt-get.dselect also 'knows' that syslogd isn't an available package. How can this be? I understood that dselect and dpkg used the same files (those in /var/lib/dpkg/). How can I get dpkg, dselect and apt all in sync? Should I do an update using the apt method of dselect. How else could I update dpkg without involving dselect. The details follow: |zippy:~$ su -c 'apt-get install -s syslogd' |Password: |Reading Package Lists... Done |Building Dependency Tree... Done |Note, selecting sysklogd instead of syslogd |Sorry, sysklogd is already the newest version |0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |zippy:~$ |zippy:~$ dpkg -l syslog\* |Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold || Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed ||/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) |||/ Name Version Description |+++-===============-=============-============================================= |pn syslog-summary <none> (no description available) |un syslogd <none> (no description available) Thanks for reading.
