Ben Collins writes: > Which version of dpkg-dev do you have installed? $ dpkg -l dpkg-dev Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii dpkg-dev 1.9.4 Package building tools for Debian