This sounds like a question for debian-mentors, but based on the manual page, I don't think that is possible. I would suggest trying to use wildcards. If that doesn't work, install everything and remove the unwanted parts. Or maybe dh-exec is helpful. http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/dh_install http://packages.debian.org/sid/dh-exec -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise