Re: [Hampshire] Debian, I installed the wrong bit

On Fri January 4 2008 10:49, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 at 10:41:40AM +0000, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > > > You can use aptitude to remove packages and there is a sort
> > > > of 'graphical interface' you can use which so far as I know doesn't
> > > > need X. The interface isn't as user friendly as synaptic* but is a
> > > > lot friendlier than dpkg.
> > >
> > > Ditto, the command line interface is easy enough, the ncurses text user
> > > interface (TUI) is a bit unfriednly..
> >
> > It is still a huge improvement on dselect.
>
> .... Annoyingly you still get dselect on an Etch system.
>
Well after a bit of trial and error I ended up reinstalling and then just
accepting the standard install (was that what it was called??) and then
installed the bits I wanted afterwards. Suffice to say it is up and running
at the moment but I am having issues with the software I have installed and I
guess I back next week probably asking questions :o

Tim