dselect gone crazy

Osamu Hone · External Since: Jun 15, 2009 Posts: 11

Dear fellow dselect users

dselect gone crazy

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545366

And looks like it will take some time before it gets fixed.
this is bad.

What should I do?

Sven Joachim · External Since: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 28

On 2009-09-08 16:33 +0200, Osamu Hone wrote:

> Dear fellow dselect users
>
> dselect gone crazy
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545366
>
> And looks like it will take some time before it gets fixed.
> this is bad.
>
> What should I do?

- Downgrade dpkg (and dpkg-dev, dependencies) to 1.15.3.1, or

- Stop using dselect and learn aptitude.

My advice would be to go for the second option, but I'm biased.

Sven

--
I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided
debian. –- Andrew Morton

John Hasler · External Since: Dec 04, 2004 Posts: 192

Osamu Hone writes:
> dselect gone crazy

> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545366

> And looks like it will take some time before it gets fixed.
> this is bad.

> What should I do?

a) Don't use dselect. It's always been crazy.
b) Don't use Unstable if you can't deal with occasional breakage.
--
John Hasler

Osamu Hone · External Since: Jun 15, 2009 Posts: 11

Sven Joachim wrote:

> - Downgrade dpkg (and dpkg-dev, dependencies) to 1.15.3.1, or
>
> - Stop using dselect and learn aptitude.
>
> My advice would be to go for the second option, but I'm biased.

I've downgraded dpkg ... and dselect is working fine now. Thank
you. And sorry for ignoring your advice. I tried aptitude I guess
several times before but never got it.

Magnate · External Since: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 12

"Osamu Hone" <hone.osamu RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
news:h8606h$efd$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > - Downgrade dpkg (and dpkg-dev, dependencies) to 1.15.3.1, or
> >
> > - Stop using dselect and learn aptitude.
> >
> > My advice would be to go for the second option, but I'm biased.
>
> I've downgraded dpkg ... and dselect is working fine now. Thank
> you. And sorry for ignoring your advice. I tried aptitude I guess
> several times before but never got it.

IMO dselect is neither one thing nor the other. If you want a properly
browseable and searchable tool for looking at packages, use synaptic (or
kpackage on kde). If you want a command-line tool for managing packages, use
apt-get (and associated progs like apt-cache).

Also IMO aptitude falls into this same no-mans-land category, but I know
that aptitude has a loyal following who swear by it.

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