On Nov 02 2005, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even
> after carefully reading what docs I could find.
Exactly the same situation in which I found myself! Way too confusing
for day to day use. And, then, some heretic people say that the com
Hi and thanks for everyone's feedback and the suggestions/encouragement
to use aptitude.
I first learned dselect when starting with Debian several years ago.
Due to discussions like this, people tipped me off to apt-get and I
started making good use of that over the past couple years. I've been
a
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:44 -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just
> looking for quick responses.
>
> I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates
> today.
>
> When I run
>
> apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
5 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: apt-get vs. dselect
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:44:07AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just
looking for quick responses.
I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates
today.
When I run
apt-get u
I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed,
even after carefully reading what docs I could find.
My advice is to avoid dselect like the plague.
--- Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just
> looking for quick
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:44:07AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just
> looking for quick responses.
>
> I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates
> today.
>
> When I run
>
> apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-up
> helpful). Traditionally I've used dselect to manage the packages that I
> have installed, but it gets rather cumbersome having to scroll through a
> list of crud, looking for specific updates.
>
> Is that what apt-get does for me automatically? I noticed that apt-get has
> the dselect-upgra
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