On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 04:16:30PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > That's odd. I guess 'apt-get update' doesn't let dpkg know that these > are available until actually installed or update is run in dselect. > (just guessing...) > Can anybody confirm this behavior? > Yes, apt works on /var/state/apt/lists/*, whereas dpkg works with /var/lib/dpkg/available. daniel