Re: Dselect odd behaviour

[Dan Nguyen <nguyend7@cse.msu.edu>]

In article <slrn7jti62.80e.djh59@divad.chu.cam.ac.uk> you wrote:
: I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/
: and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and
: now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages
: I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to
: no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this? 

Have you tried another mirror?  Try editing your /etc/apt/source.list
file and use ftp://ftp.debian.org, just to check.  Occasionally
mirrors don't get update correctly.  I've gotten this before when
using the canadian mirror.

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