Okay I believe you can just see a list of the packages which would be upgraded without actually doing it with: apt-get -s dist-upgrade I believe you can see the list when doing the upgrade with: apt-get -u dist-upgrade You can see a list of all the packages installed on your system with: dpkg -l Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
