May be you should try with
apt-get -s dselect-upgrade. This should list both the new packages to be installed from scratch and the ones that need to be upgraded (together with the promise of configuring all of them). Bye Alessandro I ran dselect on my home box last night and it wanted to download 70Mb of files. This is ok given that I've been using potato for a while without downloading. Can I ask dselect (or dpkg) to generate a file list of required files and then use that file list to download the 70Mb at work, where we're on a fast connection? I can burn a cd at work and bring it home. Then I'll just do dpkg -i on the .deb files on the CDROM. Regards, Doug Eck -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
