dpkg/dselect doesn't keep packages contents ?

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew Martin Adrian Cater)]

Problem: using dselect and the ftp option: I download the contents
for hamm/main, hamm/contrib, hamm/unstable - update - shows 1194
packages etc. updated.  Request new packages - go to install new
packages and the program can't find contents and suggests I
re-run update.  Any ideas welcome, as otherwise I can't upgrade
from 1.3 [I managed to nuke my old system - which was working
perfectly - by using the remove unwanted software option which
removed _much_ more than I wanted so I was faced with a complete
reinstallation.

Thanks

Andy 


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