Well, it seems my hard drive was in somewhat of a mess. A few runs of fsck later and apt-* and dpkg-* are working fine. Ben. -- Ben Burton benb@acm.org | bab@debian.org http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger bab@debian.org Something was dead in each of us, / And what was dead was Hope. - Oscar Wilde