In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to : no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this?
Have you tried another mirror? Try editing your /etc/apt/source.list file and use ftp://ftp.debian.org, just to check. Occasionally mirrors don't get update correctly. I've gotten this before when using the canadian mirror. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16