Brian Servis wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > > And yes it will sort out which are i386, sparc, etc. In fact, if you > look at the list in dselect it won't even show the architecture field. > > -- > Brian
Thanks. I added that to my sources.list file. I ran apt-get update;apt-get upgrade and was informed about 10 upgraded packages. But when apt-get tried to download them I got some error messages telling me that the files weren't plain files (or something to that effect). What does that mean? TIA -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org