i was just trying to use it to install the "si" package, i did ./udpkg -i //var/cache/apt/archives/si_0.9.5-1_i386.deb it removed a heap of packages that also started with si, e.g. sirc, sidplay... etc Its probably just strncmp to the wrong name, should be able to track it down pretty easy, but anyway the current version is definetly broken. Glenn