Using gnome-Add/remove applications to install NetBeans 6.1

[Martin]

Binary package hint: gnome-app-install

failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/postgresql-8.3/libpq5_8.3.6-0ubuntu8.10_i386.deb

I did a normal web browse of the archive:
As expected there is no:
                              /postgresql-8.3/libpq5_8.3.6-0ubuntu8.10_i386.deb
but there is a:
                              /postgresql-8.3/libpq5_8.3.7-0ubuntu8.04.1_i386.deb
Question1: why does the installer look for libpq5_8.3.6-0ubuntu8.10_i386.deb instead of libpq5_8.3.7-0ubuntu8.04.1_i386.deb?

Question2: is there a libpq5_8.3.6-0ubuntu8.10_i386.deb on the package server but has someone forgotten to give read access to the general public?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic. Sorry but I don't know what you mean by this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-app-install
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: gnome-app-install 0.5.12-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-app-install
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This isn't a bug, as that version was removed from the archive a couple of weeks ago - it's a problem somewhere on your end.

Try opening Update Manager, and ask it to check for updates.