Hi, I have built TL2008 with tex-common_2.01~2, and installed texlive-base and texlive-lang-german. Works nearly like a charm, except that fmtutil --all (and probably update-language) need to be run manually after installing tl-lang-german... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg