On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Dan Christensen wrote: > The lines > > DPkg { > Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; > Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; > } > > used to do the desired thing in my apt.conf file, but now they do > nothing. However, the following lines Can you try 'apt-config dump' and tell me if there are differences (there should be) and then can you include the whole non-working config file? Jason