Hello! I've slightly investigated the problem myself. In the apt-utils.el I see the form:
(defconst apt-utils-completing-read-hashtable-p (and (not apt-utils-xemacs-p) (or ;; Next released version after 21.3 will support this (and (>= emacs-major-version 21) (>= emacs-minor-version 4)) (>= emacs-major-version 22) ;; As will the current pretest (string-match "\\..*\\..*\\." emacs-version))) "Non-nil if `completing-read' supports hash table as input.") May be it pretends that Emacs 21.4 can do something that it actually can't? Placing into ~/.emacs or /etc/emacs/default.el the next form solves the problem: (eval-after-load "apt-utils" '(set 'apt-utils-completing-read-hashtable-p nil)) though, I thing it is a hack, anyway. Best regards, Igor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]