Hi, I'm having troubles with dselect in slink. I tried addressing this issue in debian-user, but got absoutely no response, so I thought I'd try here. I haven't been on this list for long, so if this is in any way inappropriate, I apologize. I'm very grateful to and have great respect for all the developers.
A big part of the difficulty for me is figuring out exactly what problem I have. What happened was that when I tried to update my packages the other night using dselect, a number of packages, mostly perl and pam, had errors. Now dselect is stuck. I can update the packages file, I can switch to another install method, but when it comes to running install, no go. I've been stumbling around in bug tracking, and I successfully applied one "quick fix" (export PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5), which bought me updating my available packages and changing access methods, but I still can't install. If this is waiting for a fix, I don't mind waiting, I just want to know what I should be keeping an eye open for when a fix becomes available. It's been a good number of days now. OTOH, if I need to download some packages and manually install em, then I'd like to have at it. You see.. install attempt in dselect error message: ----------------------------------------- [..unmet dependencies, blah, blah.. ] dependencies: perl-suid: Depends:perl libpam0: Depends:libpam0g perl: Depends:perl-base Thanks, David