[Koha-devel] dselect non-funcitonal on Ubuntu

[Mason James]

On 2012-09-28, at 1:56 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:

> 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
> 0 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 8,500 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 22.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> 
> So I propose the removal of dselect usage from the docs and use of
> simple apt-get commands (perhaps providing a convenient script).


also, have you tried running...
$ sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade


instead of...
$ sudo dselect install


(i don't think it will fix your problem, but worth trying)