Re: Question on dselect

2004-02-02 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'TTH'! On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:07:03PM +0800, TTH wrote: I did an apt-get yesterday and somehow, other than the packages that I specified, many other unrelated packages are selected as well. Specifically, I have upgraded my xine-ui (by executing apt-get -t testing xine-ui). That's don

Re: Question on dselect

2004-02-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-02, TTH penned: > Hi, I did an apt-get yesterday and somehow, other than the packages > that I specified, many other unrelated packages are selected as well. > > Specifically, I have upgraded my xine-ui (by executing apt-get -t > testing xine-ui). That's done and all is good. But when

Question on dselect

2004-02-02 Thread TTH
Hi, I did an apt-get yesterday and somehow, other than the packages that I specified, many other unrelated packages are selected as well. Specifically, I have upgraded my xine-ui (by executing apt-get -t testing xine-ui). That's done and all is good. But when I go to dselect, I find that many

Re: question on "dselect"

2003-07-01 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Monday 30 June 2003 12:02, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > > I did not select any package using "dselect". But when I select > > "install" in "dselect", there is a bunch of packages requested to be > > installed. Why? > > dselect installs any

Re: question on "dselect"

2003-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:16:00AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > I did not select any package using "dselect". But when I select > "install" in "dselect", there is a bunch of packages requested to be > installed. Why? dselect installs any 'Priority: standard' and higher packages that it hasn't seen

question on "dselect"

2003-06-29 Thread Terence Ng
Hi! I did not select any package using "dselect". But when I select "install" in "dselect", there is a bunch of packages requested to be installed. Why? Is it because I am using "stable" release with some "testing" packages? Best regards, Terence __

Re: Newbie question on dselect

1999-04-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Apr-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Um, no, the errors are because it can't resolve the host names. You > have to have a working DNS configuration (man resolv.conf). > Alternatively, try IP numbers but I'm not sure if that will work or > not. > >> How do set the proxy server information in the >

Re: Newbie question on dselect

1999-04-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Tan) writes: > I just successfully installed slink 2.1 on a sparc machine. When I attempted > to use "dselect" to install some other packages off the net, I ran into the > following problem. > > Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > Get http://http.non-u

Newbie question on dselect

1999-04-04 Thread Rick Tan
Hello, I just successfully installed slink 2.1 on a sparc machine. When I attempted to use "dselect" to install some other packages off the net, I ran into the following problem. Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Get http://http.non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages Error