hello i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson. I guess it is a bad idea to issue the following command: rm -R /usr/ i try to look at the bright side, you know make lemonade and all that, so at least i get a new system as a result of my bonehead mistake. Hopefully i will make different, and yet equally idiotic mistakes in the future. thanks for listening, i just needed to vent. -jake