Brian Servis wrote: > Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using > a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev > installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for > alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency. Thanks Brian -- that's almost certianly his problem. Alien doesn't parse any dates, just looks at 822-date's return code. -- see shy jo