Hi Richard, the problem you described has nothing to do with nmap but with the way apt is configured on your machine. I just set up a fresh wheezy chroot, the same "dependencies" are pulled in here, but they are not hard dependencies. After setting
APT::Install-Recommends "false things look a lot better: $ schroot -u root -c wheezy-i386 -- apt-get -s install nmap Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libblas3 libblas3gf libexpat1 libgfortran3 liblinear1 liblua5.1-0 libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libquadmath0 mime-support python python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal Suggested packages: liblinear-dev python-doc python-tk python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support Recommended packages: liblinear-tools file The following NEW packages will be installed: libblas3 libblas3gf libexpat1 libgfortran3 liblinear1 liblua5.1-0 libpcap0.8 libpcre3 libquadmath0 mime-support nmap python python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal 0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. [...] HTH, -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org