Hi I am setting up a server. I have done it in the past using
dpkg --set-selections <server_install_list apt-get dselect-upgrade where server_install_list is a list of packages described below after first doing a regular insinstall of the full desktop packages (i really dont need the whole desktop). Now my server_install_list was made many years ago from packages on old versions of debian perhaps it was sarge or etch. So I was playing around and looking at the many packages that were renamed or no longer exist and i got the messages like dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: aalib-bin which made sense cause now it is called libaa-bin ( and even more important there is no reason for that package, it is just there because i created the list server_install_list from all the packages of my old sarge system, dpkg --get-selections > server_install_list many years ago and I didn't care to limit what junk was there long ago when I did that. ) Now I also got messages like dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: gpm but clearly there still is a packages gpm. So I googled around and found this page http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=79006 and so I installed the dselect package, which seems to be a new thing. Then I googled and saw that I had to do dselect access dselect update which seems to be new from old days. Now, I was playing around and I did dpkg --clear-selections then dpkg --set-selections <fixed_server_install_list then apt-get dselect_upgrade took out much of my system. That was quite unpleasant. I saved the kernal :) So then to rescue myself I installed tasksel and I installed the desktop system again. Ok what is the approved method to add a bunch of packages to the system without getting munged?? Thanks Mitcell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130331221355.ga31...@earthlink.net
