Sorry for that first letter, I mis-understood the ANNOUNCE file. > PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU *MUST* INSTALL THE xbase PACKAGE WITH dpkg > 0.50 OR ABOVE!!! (Previous versions of dpkg do not support virtual > packages.) I didn't associate the 50 in 0.50 as being a patch level number. Upgraded to dpkg 0.93.70, all is well. Thanks, Barry