Hi, This is with dpkg 1.9.17 on Solaris 8: % dpkg-shlibdeps -dPre-Depends main/dpkg dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find path for libc.so.1 dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for (libc.so.1) dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared library libc (soname 1, path , dependency field Pre-Depends) % echo $? 0 Christoph? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.