Did you do the "update list of available packages" step before trying to proceed with select or install.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith O'Connell) writes: > Hi, > > I decided to investigate the move from "stable" to "testing". I thought > it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace "stable" with > "testing". I did that, and ran dselect to browse through the changes > and found a couple of problems > > 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates some dependency > issues. It tells me that; > > lwrsed recommends libnss-lwres > libnss-lwres does not appear to be available > > gnome-panel recommends gnome-applets (>=1.4.0-1) > gnome-applets does not appear to be available > > Why are specified dependencies not available > > 2: I also pointed my "security.debian.org" entry to testing and it > baulked at that completely. For security update for packages in > testing, what should the security site entries read? > > What might I have got wrong? -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 *