I have not found a way to use dselect through a socks 4.2beta server. Can anyone help me get it working?
I do have dftp_3.2-1 working through the firewall. If I cannot get dselect to work directly is it possible to: use dftp to get the new Packages files use dselect to choose which packages to upgrade/install use dftp to download and install selected packages. To get dftp to work I had to install unstable software to my 1.3.1 installation: libsocks4_4.3.beta2-3 socks-clients_4.3.beta2-3 dftp_3.2-1 I also installed: dpkg_1.4.0.19 dpkg-ftp_1.4.0.19 There are a few other packages these are dependent on too but they are obviated by the dpkg command. Additionally I had to: set up /etc/socks.conf set the SOCKS_NS and SOCKS_SERVER environment variables and make a symbolic link from ftp to rftp It is quite nice to have dftp working so updating currently installed packages is easy. I would still like to have dselect working so installing new packages can be easy. TIA, Stephen Serafin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .