On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: > I am trying to upgrade to Debian 2.0 via ftp. I ran the autoup.sh > script and everything was fine. Then I fired up dselect to update > all my packages. That is where everything fell apart. > I selected all the packages in dselect that I wanted but it errored > everytime dselect tried to get one of the packages. I hit ctrl-c and > now when I go in to dselect it shows all the packages as being installed > already. My questions are: > > 1) How do I get dselect to stop showing the required packages that I need > to update as already being installed?
Are you sure that is what is shown? If so, the first field will show <space>*** If anything else is shown, such as <space>U**, <space><space>**, they are not installed. You can check further by issuing 'dpkg -l <package_name>' and if the package is install, it will say 'ii'. > > 2) What are the settings that I need to use in dselect to get the packages > that > I need below is my dselect configurations? > > Enter ftp site [ftp.debian.org]: > > Use passive mode [y]: > > Enter username [anonymous]: > > If you are using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email > address for use as a password. Otherwise enter your password, > or "?" if you want dpkg-ftp to prompt you each time. > > Enter password [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Enter debian directory [/debian]: > Go through an authenticated FTP proxy [n]: > > Note: order here is important. Package files are scanned in order so > later distributions will override earlier ones. > > So put stable before unstable. > > Enter space seperated list of distributions to get > [hamm/hamm]: dists/stable > > Enter directory to download binary package files to > (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/) > [/packages]: main contrib non-free ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null