On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > 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? You should better try this: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ Works fine for me... -- Tschüß, Dietmar