Playing around with debian-installer. In debian/dists/sid/main/debian-installer/binary-powerpc/Packages wget-retriever is listed as version 0.002. I had no trouble building a wget-retriever_0.007 from "apt-get source", but there is no such version in the pool retrieve for powerpc, only 0.002. Any reason why not ? The v. 0.002 is broken as well. It looks for woody instead of sid and then it just 404s. Peter