Re: [tlug] Halfway between Dapper and Edgy

["Marcelo Martins" <mhtmartins@example.com>]

On 1/17/07, Shannon Jacobs <shannon.jacobs@example.com> wrote:
> Sorry to make it into a crossword puzzle, but all I can
> recall now is that it was four letters beginning with a "d", it had one
> parameter, and it ran for a while and fixed the machine enough so that I
> could recover it the rest of the way using apt-get... My fuzzy understanding
> is that this utility program is actually a lower level of apt-get, but my
> personal goal is to stay as much at the high levels as possible.

dselect? It can save you when apt-get, synaptic and aptitude decide to
go on strike.