On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:27:23PM -0700, NewDeb <ace_shikha@hotmail.com> was heard to say: > I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the > NEW and Extra packages that are installed when dpkg -i is used. I don't recognize those offhand as dpkg output. Could you paste a snippet what you're referring to? (i.e., install something with "dpkg -i" and paste the output here) Thanks, Daniel