"David Z. Maze" wrote: <snip> > APT also integrates with the traditional Debian package > manager front-end, dselect.... That's what I always thought, but maybe I've got something configured weird on my boxes, because I've noticed on several occasions that I can do an "apt-get update" and then go into dselect and search for some package. That package isn't there. If I then do an "Update" within dselect the package becomes available. Maybe it's just me....