Re: Okay to remove obsolete required packages like "base"?

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:

> Hmm, now this leads me to a bit of a dilemma, I want to install some new
> packages.  I was hoping apt-get would be able to do this for me, but it
> seems that apt-get will only install commandline explicitly stated packages.
> Ie, I wanted to be able to select stuff using dselect, and then exit and use
> apt-get to do the work.  Unfortunately it would seem this is not possible.
> What is possible is to use the apt method in dselect to install new
> packages, but it would seem this is not safe, as I get the following:

Install apt and you should get a new apt method in dselect. Select option
1 in the main dselect menu and you should see it.