Hi, I´m new on the list and with Debian, please forgive my english from now on :-)
"David Z. Maze" wrote: [snip] > dselect should give you the same list of packages you can find on the > FTP site. IMHO it's marginally easier to use than FTP'ing packages by > hand; YMMV. I'm having trouble to reach debian ftp's site from dselect. My machine is behind a firewall and a RH5.2 proxy server running squid. It simply doesn't connect! > AM> I tried apt but it told me some of my packages were configured > AM> wrong and would not go on. How would I change this? > > 'dpkg --configure --pending', perhaps? 'apt-get -f install', if it > complains about dependency problems. I've installed libc6 running dpkg -i <package>, and now it fails installing any other package from dselect or even dpkg because it looks for libc5. How do I update the dpkg database. I tried with 'update' from dselect but it didn't work! Thanx in advance. Orco mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]