I'd suggest simply filing this as bug report against the dpkg-shlibdeps. If it can't run from emacs or script, that's going to become rather inconvenient... It does run from screen, if you're looking for another way around the problem in the meantime though. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com