sorry if this is a repeat but i sent this befor i was subscribed the other day i tried using dselect to upgrade as normal, this is what i saw when trying to [I]nstall
Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package checker needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. installation script returned error exit status 100. Press <enter> to continue. then i tried to use apt-get dist-upgrade and i got this Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package checker needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. i tried using dpkg and it works fine, but i reinstalled dpkg and apt to insure it wasnt a broken package, i asked on irc.debian.org and no one could help... PLEASE help me get apt working thanks daniel