Does anybody know about a really good explanation of the combined use of dselect, apt-get and dpkg, especially after you have made a mess of everything ? The documentation I found in the slink distribution is either introductory or incomplete or referring to each other or to non-existent man pages. egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991 ========================================================================