Could anyone simplify that? Resolving conflicts between modules is really not my job and I do not know the intricasies of these modules.
Its really not all that complicated. There is a file called Packages, which should be under the stable directory (or close to that) and it lists all of the available debian packages, including their name, the filename (different than the package name), the version, description, etc. It also might have some fields such as 'depends', where it lists other packages that this package must have to work properly. So if you want to install package 'elm', you'll see that it 'depends' on 'smail | sendmail'. That those are joined with the logical OR tells you that it needs 'smail' or 'sendmail' in order to function. So make sure you install one of those packages before installing elm. Another field is 'conflicts', where the names of packages which conflict with the current package appear. So under 'sendmail', you'll see that it conflicts with 'smail', which means that you can not have both installed at the same time. That's about all there is to it, and since dselect is supposed to keep track of all this for you, you just have to figure out how to use dselect, which for me was the hardest part of the whole thing. In fact, I blew it off and just use dpkg. Good luck, Steve
