Package: dselect Version: 1.18.2 Followup-For: Bug #794977
I'm not sure if this helps, but the http method seems to have dissappeared: mdione@mustang:~$ dpkg -L dselect | grep methods /var/lib/dpkg/methods /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp /var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy /var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt /var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd /usr/lib/dpkg/methods /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/update /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.mounted /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.harddisk /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.nfs /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.cdrom /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/names /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/install /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/update /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/setup /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_nfs /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_mount /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_cd /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/names /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/desc.ftp /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/names /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/update /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/install /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/update /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/setup /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/desc.floppy /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy/names while we're at it, does the floppy method have any use? maybe usb drives? also: this is a i386 machine, so Alexi Suhonen's suggestion did not work (it only has /usr/lib). using aptitude meanwhile... -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.2 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-15 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-15 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.20.2-6 -- no debconf information