I have this from Dale: My contribution to instructions on dselect, although not deeply flawed, are, none the less flawed enough to remove from the document. (Actually, replacing all the references to use of the minus (-) key should be replaced with references to the H key (packages should be put on hold, not deselected) and replacing the plus (+) key with the 'G' key removes the flaw. If I can find some time, I will rewrite it myself and put it out to the list.. Otherwise, just remove the following section:
> USING DSELECT > > The primary intent of dselect is to do a full installation. For this to work > properly you MUST have a complete and clean binary archive. Several packages > in the free portion of the distribution recommend packages in non-free. > Without this portion of the tree dselect will die with a partial > installation. More important than that, this is a BETA release! There may > still be packages that break during installation from internal errors, or > because they demand unsatisfiable preconditions (example: libc5-dev-5.2.18-2 > requires libc5 (=5.2.18-2). If you have libc5-5.2.18-4, which should > function properly, it will not install) > For the above reasons, I do NOT recommend upgrading via a full installation. > As it is the most crucial phase, I have focused most of my effort on > upgrading the base packages. Getting these packages installed properly is > crucial to the proper operation of your new system. For that reason I > suggest you do these by hand. However, we are using dselect in this section, > and it can be forced to do this job. If you have chosen to use dselect you > do not want to do the base installation by hand because, further dselect > installation will try, unsuccessfully, to rearrange the base installation. If > you do the base installation with dselect, further dselect installations > will proceed more successfully. > > INSTALLING THE BASE PACKAGES WITH DSELECT > > OK, you have installed the new dpkg. Now run dselect, choose an Access > method, update the packages list, and choose Select Packages. > After the intro help screen, you will be presented with the selection > window. The 'cursor' is over the section; All Packages. The first thing you > want to do is deselect all packages, so press the '-' (minus) key. The > screen will switch (with an introductory help screen) to the depends screen. > Accept these by pressing enter and dselect will return you to the selection > screen. We have now informed dselect that we are not doing a full install. > Now, use the arrow keys to move the cursor down the list to "Required Base > Packages" and press the '+' (plus) key. Again you will end up at a depends > screen. Dselect will properly identify the two outdated packages (tput and > last), so you can simply press enter here, returning to the selection > screen. This completes the selection process and enter will get back to the > main menu. Select "Install selected packages" and the installation will > proceed. Refer to the previous sections for information on how to answer the > con file questions that will arise during this installation. -- Pixar Animation Studios: Reality is not our business. Pixar's "Toy Story" $184,849,036 domestic, $117.5M overseas and counting. That makes it number 21 in box office figures of all films ever released.
