So, I installed slink on my machine, and got to the dselect phase. I read the docs and ran dselect, and got to the Install phase, whereupon it took about 20 hours to download all the selected packages, which seems about right. I got back to the machine, and it was back to the dselect main menu, with "Quit dselect" highlighted. So I did. And none of the packages were installed. Thinking I did something wrong, I ran dselect again, this time going into the Select phase for some time and removing large packages that I didn't want and adding packages that I did want, and then on to the Install phase, and it went just like before, with nothing installed. I found the directory where it downloaded all the package files, they all seem to be there. What did I do wrong? I had no problems or error messages from dselect, except for a hand full of non-essential packages that failed to download because, over 20-odd hours, some resets and timeouts will occur. No big deal there.
Can I install the packages that were downloaded using some other tool now? Has this happened to anyone else? a