Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>
>  Harry> Yikes.. I guess the name is kind of a giveaway but the definition in
>  Harry> the man page doesn't come across as giving that kind of information:
>
>       Incidentally, if you happen to use dselect (I use dselect with
>  apt as a backend), looking through /var/lib/dpkg/available is quite
>  informative (especially when I am unsure of what I am looking for and
>  just use the regexp search in emacs or less).

My one go around with dselect during my first installation attempt
caused me to want to shoot myself after a few minutes.  But once you
start getting used to the keybindings it starts to work.

What does it mean to use dselect with apt as backend? 

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