After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as "essential" which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion. Should I force the removal? Bob -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (ex-W6SWE) (RN2) nielsen@primenet.com Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen