That's fairly normal with woody and sid. It basically means your mirror is in the processes of synching with the master server. Try a different mirror, (if you're using ftp.us.debian.org or http.us.debian.org just try again, they're doing a round robin DNS [or maybe they're doing some sort of load balancing?] so another mirror might have finished syncing. Or give up, try again in a couple hourse. I use a cron job myself to download dist-upgrades while I'm asleep. (apt-get update && apt-get -dy dist-upgrade) Usually everything is there and downloaded when I get around to actually installing the updated packages. Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 http://www.ringworld.org | PCS: 612.306.6055 They must not get baseball sized hail in Redmond. If they did MS would have realized HailStorm is a bad name for their new services.