> Using the basedebs.tgz resulted in the installer complaining that gunzip > failed. I gzipped the file and everything worked. > Methinks you useda buggy browser, some versions of netscape and mozilla are known to ungzip the file when the download occurs. This is not a bug on this debian package, i suggest you try downloading it with wget or some other tool and then close this bug. Thanks -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk