> > While upgrading, a number of packages (about 10 of the over 100) > failed to install. The result of this was that after the first > round of attempted installations of the new/updated packages, the > ftp access method for dselect no longer worked. > > This was very disconcerting! > > -gavin...
When I first installed Debian, this really spooked me as well. I managed to watch the messages as they flew by, and was able to note that all of the packages that failed depended on perl being installed. The way the files were selected though, perl is one of the later things to be installed, so everything installed before it that depends on it will fail. How's that for a sentence? Anyway, I found that by simply doing a 'dpkg -i perl....' and then a 'dpkg -i dpkg...', everything worked once again and all other failed packages could then be installed and set up by dselect. My suggestion to the debian team would be to add a feature to dselect that would flag certain packages as 'on hold', install as much as possible, then go back and try to install the failed packages again. The dependencies are all correct, but order of installing makes a difference as well. SJG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]