- Dselect
dselect is a
computer program used to manage software packages in theDebian operating system.dselect is one of the oldest front-ends to
dpkg , and the bulk of its development happened when it was originally written byIan Jackson , who wrote it alongside dpkg.The work on dselect started in dpkg version 0.93.12, and the first alpha release of dselect was made on
March 27 ,1995 in version 0.93.32. dselect was distributed in the dpkg package untilJune 21 ,2002 ; even after it was split out into its own package, it was kept as a pre-dependency of dpkg in order to assist upgrades. It has been a standalone package sinceMarch 3 ,2005 .dselect has a text-mode user interface, a set of key bindings that is generally considered to be fairly non-intuitive, and its dependency resolution mechanism is suboptimal. dselect can now use apt as the back-end 'method' for installing packages.
Today, dselect is largely superseded by
Advanced Packaging Tool front-ends.Quotes
I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided debian. – Andrew Morton in [http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/18/304]
External links
* [http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/dselect-beginner/ The dselect documentation for beginners]
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