>>>>> "JB" == Jean-Paul Blaquiere <japester@q-net.net.au> writes: JB> has been for a while i presume at www.eris.rcpt.to/libc-lchown No, this is for use with the old dpkg on 2.1 kernels. The one at www.eris.rcpt.to/libc is the one that's meant to just work, but that assumes that the new dpkg (which I don't actually have just yet) knows about the new syscalls, and that you're running either a 2.1 or recent 2.0 kernel. m.