Re:

[Gerhard Kroder <gerhard.kroder@data-sciences.de>]

Doug Young wrote:
> 
> Would someone please explain in words of less than two syllables
> just what steps are required to use "dselect" ?? . I have followed
> the instructions in the manual at least 20 times so far but it seems
> there must be something more than "+ " and "-" involved in
> selecting packages to install / uninstall 

no, that's about all you need (besides step 1 and 2, selct installation
method and update filelist)

> that is probably trivial to
> an expert but totally incomprehensible to a beginner :(

what's going wrong? messed up in depencies? for installing stable debian
from cd all you need to do is select packages (+,-)  and confirm depencie
dialogs (space, return).

 gerhard