Hello, Marcus! > Better use cross-install. > > Marcus cross-install didn't work for me. The problem is that I'm using RedHat, and my dpkg-1.4.1.1 was installed in /usr/local. "strace" shows me that it also tries to use /gnu/usr/local Another stange thing was, that dpkg tries to access /gnu/usr/local/var/dpkg while /gnu/usr/var/lib/dpkg existed (note "lib") Symlinks ln -s . /gnu/local ln -s lib/dpkg /gnu/var/dpkg make the script work! Pavel Roskin