When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just install the packages I've asked for, and quit. Without taking half a year listing all availiable packages. Am I wrong ? Where do I RTFM ? \EF http://www.lysator.liu.se/~forsberg/linux/