Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[David Bandel]

On 7/16/07, Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org> wrote:
> Doesn't dselect just point to packages for another program to install?
> If you are trying to bypass apt-get, wouldn't the script need to
> download the package then install with dpkg?

technically, dselect and apt-get are interfaces to dpkg.  But dpkg
itself doesn't support downloading the packages, that's done by other
helper programs (which dselect and apt-get call). like dpkg-ftp, and
others.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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