Mason James wrote:
"Well, your bug report shows there are still people using dselect..:-) It's of course not a big surprise that dselect doesn't support multi arch."
so… whats the better alternative to dselect, that we should be using (that i know nothing about?)
dpkg or aptitude, i guess??
We're already using dpkg, specifically --set-selections, but dpkg doesn't do the downloads for you. I think this is actually a bug in apt-get, not dselect, as I think "dselect install" just runs "apt-get dselect-upgrade" now. dselect may refuse to run, but I bet apt-get dselect-upgrade still might try. I fear that the list may get too long for a command line. I don't see anything in "man aptitude" or "man apt-get" which suggests how to load a package list file for installation. At best, could we print multiple aptitude --schedule-only install ... lines, followed by a plain aptitude install? Not sure on aptitude now, because I think the last two debian release notes have changed back to apt-get. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/