On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:45:04AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > >From: Scott Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Problem 2: dselect config file mulched > > > >I've inadvertantly hoarked whatever shoot-myself-in-the-foot.config > >file it is that controls what the dselect program can access. I can't > >seem to get a package list update from the CD's I installed from. > >With this remedied, maybe I could install the man pages! In any event, > >this leads to the frustrating: > > Check out /etc/apt/sources.list Unless you totally deleted it, it probably > have a few default sources you can uncomment. Man/info will can provide more > info if not. also you could try re-running the first option on deselect and > resetup apt.
if you have apt-setup it'll get you started. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #2 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Confused about using "apt-get" to keep your Debian UP-TO-DATE? See http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...