in build-essential package there are two files /usr/share/build-essential/list /usr/share/build-essential/essential-packages-list first contains (dpkg-dev,gcc,make,libc) and another one with a longer list with smaller utilities like (bash,coreutils,grep,gzip,...) . But the build- essential package depends on package mentiononed only in the first list. So how will the second list be enforced? alexandros