dselect apt-get coordination

[R Ransbottom]

How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect
so that they "want" the same packages?

If I understand the apt-get man page
running "apt-get dselect-upgrade" will
set up the system per the setting last
made using dselect. Correct?

How do you the inverse? That is how
do you alter the dselect database to
reflect packages installed with apt-get
or, put another way, to reflect the
current state of the system?
(So that a casual use of dselect does
not materially alter the system.)

Thanks.


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[David Z Maze]

"DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@ftb.com> writes:

> The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man
> apt.conf' for all the details.
>
> The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to
> pick which version of a particular package I want to install when
> multiple versions are available with apt-get.

You may like aptitude; it has a similar (though more familiar to me)
user interface to dselect, but it's closer tied to APT, and is aware
that there could potentially be multiple versions of a package. Rumor
is that it's not perfect about tracking a particular release ("I
usually run testing but I have an unstable APT source too"), but I
personally don't do this.

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