Re: dselect?

From: J. Hannemann (freebsdiva_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
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    --- Lian Liming <lianliming@realss.com> wrote:

    > Hi all,
    > I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me,
    > a debian newbie, :) .
    > Is there any other tool that can do such the
    > things that dselect can
    > do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
    > Thanks.
    >
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    ===============
    You can bypass dselect and use apt to install anything
    you want. Make sure you choose "desktop environment"
    so you get X (graphical environment).

    There is a GUI frontend for apt--synaptic.

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