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+.\" Hey, Emacs!  This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
+.TH DSELECT 8 "29th November 1995" "Debian Project" "Debian GNU/Linux"
+.SH NAME
+dselect \- a user tool to manage Debian GNU/Linux packages
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B dselect
+[options]
+.br
+.B dselect
+[options] action ...
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B dselect
+is the primary user interface for installing, removing and managing
+Debian GNU/Linux packages. It is an front-end to
+.B dpkg(8).
+Normally
+.B dselect
+is invoked without parameters, but some commandline parameters are still
+available.
+
+The usage of
+.B dselect
+is pretty self-explanatory, and also an internal help-system is
+included, which describes the keystrokes and some general concepts.
+.I Read the help.
+
+.SS ACTIONS
+.TP
+.B access, update, select, install, config, remove
+These actions automatically selects corresponding commands from the main
+menu, without even showing the main menu to you.
+.TP
+.B quit
+Do nothing but quit.
+.TP
+.B menu
+Displays the default menu. This is equivalent to starting
+.B dselect
+with no parameters.
+
+.SS OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B --admindir <directory>
+Changes the directory where datafiles are located. This defaults to
+.I /var/lib/dpkg.
+Note, that these files are just some internal datafiles, actual Debian
+packages doesn't have to be located here.
+.TP
+.B --debug <file> | -D<file>
+Turn on debugging. Debugging information is sent to
+.I <file>.
+.TP
+.B --help
+Print a brief help text.
+.TP
+.B --licence
+Print the licence of
+.B dselect.
+.TP
+.B --version
+Print version information.
+
+.SH BUGS
+This manpage doesn't document the options quite correctly, and has
+formatting inconsistent with other manpages.
+
+The
+.B dselect
+package selection interface is confusing or even alarming to the new
+user.
+
+There is no easy way automatically to download and install packages
+via anonymous FTP.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.B deb(5)
+,
+.B dpkg-deb(8)
+,
+.B dpkg(8)
+and
+.B deb-control(5)
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+.B dselect
+was written by Ian Jackson (ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu).
+This manual page is by Juho Vuori (javuori@cc.helsinki.fi).