> Is it possible you're running out of memory, and the kernel decides to > kill dpkg because it's one of the things using lots of it? > I don't know. Maybe my swap partition isn't being used? I was recently playing around with cfdisk. According to my partition table, the swap partition is there and large enough. Do you know of a way to test if it's getting used by Linux? Thanks for the help. P.S. Sorry about the cc again.