> 2.) There is some way of fetching those packages on the debian ftp > server which have been updated since the last time I installed? > I seem to remember there is some option to dpkg to do roughly what > apt-get upgrade does, but I don't recall what it is. I > would prefer > to fetch the .deb files actually, just so that I can do a full > reinstall without fetching anything through my slow 56K modem. > Try:
`dselect update` (gets the new packages list) `dselect install` (gets the packages and installs) -Brent
