Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Alien can be used to install binary packages, but it does so outside of > the dpkg database. That's completly wrong. Alien converts things into debian packages which may be installed and manipulated just like any other packages. > use alien to install ANY package that contains static libraries > required by the rest of the system. Static libraries are never required by the system. s/static/shared/ :-) -- see shy jo, alien maintainer