Marc.Haber-lists@gmx.de (Marc Haber) writes: > Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and > the install of the equivs package in a single operation? Yes, AFAIK. "dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install new-mta.deb" -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.