[Koha-devel] dselect non-funcitonal on Ubuntu

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

This simple test probes dselect is currently broken on Ubuntu amd64
12.04/10.04 (as root):

$ echo "apache2 install" | dpkg --set-selections
$ dselect install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.6-base:i386 libasn1-8-heimdal:i386 libc6:i386 libcap2:i386
libcomerr2:i386 libdb5.1:i386 libexpat1:i386 libgcc1:i386
libgcrypt11:i386
  libgnutls26:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libgssapi3-heimdal:i386
libhcrypto4-heimdal:i386 libheimbase1-heimdal:i386
libheimntlm0-heimdal:i386
  libhx509-5-heimdal:i386 libkrb5-26-heimdal:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386
libp11-kit0:i386 libpcre3:i386 libroken18-heimdal:i386 libsasl2-2:i386
  libsasl2-modules:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386
libtasn1-3:i386 libuuid1:i386 libwind0-heimdal:i386 zlib1g:i386
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So I propose the removal of dselect usage from the docs and use of
simple apt-get commands (perhaps providing a convenient script).

Regards
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