On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 14:21, Otavio Salvador wrote: > "G.Angely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maybe this bug could not be reproductible on all machines: comparing 2 > > i386 machines where apt and dselect are from the same version, dselect > > works without any glitch one of them. > > Hava you looked at the apt version in both machines? In all machines > where I tested have the same problem. > > []s
Affirmative: apt is 0.5.5 on both (present sid version). Don't know if it matters, but on the machine where dselect _do_ work: LANG=C (probably different on the other machine -will check-) sources.list is shorter If it can help, output of 'dpkg -s apt' is in attach. G. Angely
Package: apt Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: base Installed-Size: 2068 Maintainer: APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.5.5 Replaces: libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7) Provides: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3-0pre5), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3-0pre5) Suggests: dpkg-dev, apt-doc Description: Advanced front-end for dpkg This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager. It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. . APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features, see the Users Guide in apt-doc.

