Ok, I'll try to explain this better. Where does dselect store its listing of tasks. If you tell it to download 20 packages from the web and it downloads and installs 18 of them. The next time you say install it will include the 2 packages it didn't download last time. Even after rebooting or updating the source.list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org