John Galt wrote: > dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libao2_0.8.0-1_i386.deb That, however, broke every program that uses libao, in my experience, because you're just forcibly overwriting the libao0 libraries with the ones from libao2, and apparently they aren't backward-compatible. Which leads me to think that perhaps they should have had different names so as to be able to co-exist... Craig