RE: Two questions

[Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com>]

> 2.) There is some way of fetching those packages on the debian ftp
>     server which have been updated since the last time I installed?
>     I seem to remember there is some option to dpkg to do roughly what
>     apt-get upgrade does, but I don't recall what it is.  I 
> would prefer
>     to fetch the .deb files actually, just so that I can do a full
>     reinstall without fetching anything through my slow 56K modem.
> 
Try:

`dselect update` (gets the new packages list)
`dselect install` (gets the packages and installs)

-Brent