Ok, this problem has me totally stumped. I have upgraded from slink -> potato twice in the past without any problems. But on this new installation of slink, after I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to look like:
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" tells me: apt-get upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back omniorb 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. WTF!? I expected to see a whole pile of packages being upgraded. If I try and upgrade apt alone before upgrading everything else, I get a message saying that apt is already up to date. ii apt 0.1.9 Front-End for dpkg ii libpcap0 0.4a6-2 System interface for user-level packet captu NOT!!! Maybe I have missed something really simple, but I can't figure out how to upgrade to potato/frozen. I even tried changing "potato" to "frozen" and then "unstable" in my /etc/apt/sources.list but that didn't help either. I am running slink with a stock 2.0.36 kernel. I have a lot of customizations to make to this box but I'd like to upgrade to latest potato first. Any suggestions ?? Thanks. PS : I have already spent > 6 hours trying to upgrade this box to potato but apt/dpkg refuses to let me do so. I just hope that its something simple I have completely overlooked. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com