On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:

> Oddly enough, I have never looked at lprng before, so there is no way it 
> found it on my system.  When I complete the install process, it still 
> says I want to install it, but that it isn't installed.  It is almost as 
> if dselect does not recognize that I want to install the package, so it 
> does not hunt for it on the FTP site.
> 
> > Scott Stanley wrote:
> > > 
> > > I was just trying to download and install the lprng package from stable
> > > using dselect 1.4.0.7 with the ftp Access method.  Basically, I went into
> > > Select, and selected the package lprng (I got the dependencies window
> > > saying lprng recommended magicfilter, but I did not select magicfilter).
> > > 
> > > The select menu item for lprng looks like;
> > > 
> > >   _* Opt net      lprng       <none>    2.4.2-1   lpr/lpd printer spooling
> > > 
> > > When I exit (pressing Enter) and Install, I get
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > >    Processing status file...
> > > 
> > >    Processing Package files...
> > >     stable...
> > >     contrib...
> > >     non-free...
> > > 
> > >    Constructing list of files to get...
> > > 
> > >    Approximate total space required: 0k
> > >    Available space in ../../../../../dosc/Debian/1.2: 235632k
> > >    Nothing to get.
> > >    Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial)
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 

(I'm the person who suggested running update in dselect.)

I couldn't find lprng at ftp.mcc.ac.uk so I went to ftp.debian.org and 
it wasn't there either, except in bo. So it's a mystery to me whence 
came "Opt net lprng <none> 2.4.2-1", but no surprise that dselect 
couldn't download it.

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