Hi, I tried the line: deb http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main contrib When I update, it appears to fetch the release file but skip the packages file. If I can change unstable to sid, it works. (But since unstable == sid, this isn't very intuitive.) Is something wrong? thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>