According to E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dselect and dpkg and apt all use the same db.
Are you sure? When I do a "apt-get update" followed by a "dpkg -l ..." I sometimes do not get the same as when I do "dselect, Update" first? I have the feeling that dselect does one more thing. What supports this feeling is that "apt-get update" says: Get [blabla] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok whereas Update in dselect gives me: Get [...] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 2779 package(s) was updated. Does anyone know how to do everything with apt-get only, so that dpkg still has the correct information? Is it as simple as copying /var/cache/apt/available to /var/lib/dpkg/available ? Thanks a lot, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~