[Bug 1232661] Re: dpkg --set-selections : dpkg: warning: package not in database

[Paul Flint]

Greetings,
 sudo apt-get install dselect
 sudo dselect update

Did now work for me.  :^(

What I ended up doing was to take the package file, which contains lines
like this:

acl                                             install

and, using a text editor (maybe eventually sed or awk :^) made them look
like this:

apt-get install acl  2>>errors

Did this to the whole file, then chmod'ed it +x and fired it off...

The only real rub is you have to keep hitting enter every now and then
in the install.

Meh...

Flint

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Title:
  dpkg --set-selections : dpkg: warning: package not in database

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  dpkg --set-selections does not work any more to find packages that
  have not already been installed on the system.  If new packages are
  introduced, an error is produced with no effect on the selections.  In
  the example below, "tidy" has not yet been installed on the system,
  but it gives the same result with any other package that has not yet
  been installed:

  echo "tidy install" | dpkg --set-selections
  dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: tidy

  What should happen is that the package state be set properly so that
  "apt-get dselect-upgrade" works.

  This might be related to Debian bug 684776

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684776

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: dpkg 1.16.10ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-9.16-generic 3.11.2
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-9-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 29 10:12:58 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-26 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64+mac (20130925)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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