Dear Maintainers! I just had the same problem with �tya� and �jdk1.1�.
The problem is allready described at: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/70/7056.html Dselect runs dpkg -i <package>. This also runs the configuration script of <package>. If an error occurs because of a missing package which is intended to be installed in another branch (e.g. non-free), it just will return an error and make dselect stop. So the user has to install the 'contrib' and 'non-free' ... packages by himself, before running dselect. THIS IS NOT A GOOD WAY FOR AN EASY INSTALLATION. Some users may not be interested in the internals of dselect or dpkg. They just want to install DEBIAN. If a user hangs on this problem, he may go to SUSe or RH. Solution: All packages are installed only by dselect menu entry 'install'. They are not configured at this time. A special dpkg-flag may be needed for this too. Then later when running the dselect menu entry 'configure' all packages are configured with �dpkg --pending --configure�. Maybe 'apt' can cope with this problem better than 'dselect', but I�m used to 'deselect'. Thank you so far for this great system. -- Thomas Janke student at "university of applied sciences" - (FHTW-Berlin) Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home : http://home.fhtw-berlin.de/s0181926/index.html
