ok, lintian no longer complains about it at all sorry for not warning you but it is for potato with gnome only if someone has a slink box, I would be happy to recompile and test it there. the packages are at http://www.isc.umr.edu/~frb/sound-monitor Thanks for all the support from people who mailed me and especially on IRC Frank aka Myth -- Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you only have to climb it once.