On 23 Aug 2001 22:14:00 -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > ok, the hoopla about galeon has got me wanting to try it. I'm running > woody, so I commented out my woody lines in my sources.list and put in > > deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > so that is the only thing in there. I then did an > > apt-get update > > which did its thing just fine, looking into unstable. I then tried > > apt-get install galeon > > and it said it couldn't find the package. I checked dselect, and it > hadn't changed the view in dselect...it still had all my woody stuff > there. Furthermore, if I ran choice 2 (update) within dselect (just > in case...hey, I'm new) it didn't have to download anything since it > already had it all. Going back to the selection list still showed my > woody stuff. So how do I kick the newly downloaded stuff to show up in > dselect, or have apt-get recognize the package (I'm assuming it is the > same thing...)
dselect needs to be updated if you do an apt-get update so they sync up. It's easiest to just run the dselect update since that will also update apt. Did you get galeon installed yet? It should be found unless something is wrong. --mike
