I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny.
My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, "aptitude upgrade" debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: mkisofs The following packages have been kept back: libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno The following packages will be upgraded: <snip> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? Thanks! Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]