On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:10:16AM -0400, don wrote: > > if its a local machine you could dpkg --purg > the old ssh then just do your install Yes indeed. I could do that, and it would probably work. In fact, this is most likely what I'll end up doing - but first I'd really like to know what the problem is, and if there's a 'nice' way of getting around it. Let's assume, for the moment, that it's remote machine :-) Simon.