dselect with apt and ftp (or http) scheme

[Dieter Faulbaum <faulbaum@lenin.acc.bessy.de>]

High all,

I want to install a potato-system from ftp.de.debian.org via the
ftp-access-method of apt. I can update the list of available packages 
without a problem ans select the ones I want but when I come to
installing them, I get an error message like this for every package I
selected (this is one example): 
ERROR ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/.login_980403-0.3.2.deb
  Unable to exec scheme /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp

I don't understand how this can happen (and what I can do against it).
So I tried the http-access-method but with the same errors.
Both files are in the directory and executable. The date of these
files is Nov 6 1998.

Can anyone help me?

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