[Wolfgang Schweer] > You're right. Both are not installed. A way to figure out (one reason for) why a package is installed, is to use 'aptitude why'. For example like this: % LANG=C aptitude why bash i foomatic-db-engine PreDepends bash (>= 2.05) % It will return the first (of possibly many) reasons why a package is installed. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen