Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> 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.

If that's the case, I'll have to deal with it.  But still, how do i get 
dpkg to install the damn package without asking me tons of interactive 
questions?

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