On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:44:23AM -0600, Donald D. Daniel wrote: > dselect worked perfectly. Then I attempted to use it, instead of dpkg, > to install a *.deb file off > my disk. I found my mistake, and sucessfully installed with dpkg -i. > However, now dselect > hangs on "update", and dselect cannot list any packages not on > "binary-1". I would be tempted > to use dpkg to remove and reinstall dslect, but that might remove dpkg > too, then I would have > no way to re-install packages without erasing the disk and reinstalling > the complete system. > > How do I reinstall or re-initialize dslect?
Check the access method. If it is cdrom, change it to apt. If it is already apt, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the "deb cdrom" lines and rerun update.
