See http://www.debian.org/ for information about Debian GNU/Linux. In this directory is _not_ the orignal Debian FTP site. The ddtp (Debian Description Translation Project) make translated Packages files daily and you can use this files to get translated package descriptions on your system. If you change your apt config file /etc/apt/sources.list from deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian potato main to deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ddtp de/potato main (see the added '-ddtp' and the 'de/'), you will get german package description. Now we make i386/main Package files only. See the project site on http://ddtp.debian.org/ for more information. Master site: http://ddtp.debian.org/aptable (only http and per rsync) Know mirrors: ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ddtp ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-ddtp If you know other mirrors, write this to grisu@debian.org --- Other directories: doc Debian documentation. indices Various indices of the site. project Experimental packages and other miscellaneous files. tools Tools for creating boot disks and booting Linux.