I pulled down the 'dftp' program, and noticed at least one minor flaw - it doesn't handle having more than one version of a package around very well. for instance, I had an old copy of dpkg-0.93-70 haning around as well as the more recent dpkg-0.93-77, and in the 'select' process it didnt realize that I already had v...77 and asked me if I wanted to update to it. Also, why is it preferred to --unpack things and not --install them? --Zachary