Ill start this off with the usual caveats, Im new to linux in general, as well as debian. My problems, however, seem to be with the dselect program. I have read the minimal help pages within dselect, as well as the linux install faqs and the (frankly next-to-useless) dselect beginner file. I also checked the debian-user archives, and while I found a lot of problems with dselect, none of the solutions fixed mine.
The system Im using: (Im pretty sure this is irrelevent)- TI TM6020 notebook, P120, 8 Mgs, Active Color,... I installed the base off of dos disks and everything went very, very smoothly (For some reason, I thought that was going to be the hard part, guess not). As for the packages, I decided that it would be easiest for me to d/l the important stuff, or at least as much as I could, and install from a zip disk. I didnt have a problem getting dselect to read the zip disks nor the packages contained therein. In fact, many of the packages installed smoothly. Some of them, however, did not. Most of my problems were with xwindows files, Ill try to boil this down to some questions. 1. When installing I got pre-dependency and other dependency errors... shouldnt dselect have told me about these _before_ it started installing? This isnt exactly intuitive (nor is it in any help files Ive seen). Before you respond with the obvious, yes, all of the files which I had selected, were, in fact, on the zip disk. Why isnt dselect showing ALL the dependencies? 2.The files that wouldnt install were man manpages groff as well as a host of x files including xbase (kinda important) and all the servers. Whats worse, when I went in and tried to remove all these broken files, dselect got rid of most, but for the x servers was giving me the message xserver-svga is in an extremely inconsistent state -- you should reinstall before removing. Well, thats some circular logic worthy of Microsoft, I need to reinstall the package I cant install so I can remove it? 3. The main hang up for dselect seemed to be configuration files of one sort or another, it failed, for some reason, to create the config files for x, which lead to a whole host of other errors, and eventually to the installation process being halted. ____________________________________ My apologies for not providing more specific information, if there isnt any easy answer to my problems (which Im guessing is the case), can anyone at least recommend/point me to a file which sorts packages in a more sensible order? (The required/ imortant/optional/extra is sort of vague). In other words, if you want a basic xwindows system these packages are vital... these may be needed... these are nice to have... _and_, more importantly has the actual dependencies of the packages and what order (if any) they need to be installed in? Thanks for any help/advice/pointers. I know its frustrating dealing with newbies, just remember its frustrating being one too. _Peter D -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
