hello, Thanks a lot for your help! But now I got myself into a strange situation - I was trying to install xlibs-package which I thought I would need for Gimp 1.2.1 but I got this when I tried to install it :
#dpkg -i xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package xlibs. dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favor of xlibs ... dpkg: no, cannot remove xlibs6g (--auto-deconfigure will help): libsmpeg0 depends on xlib6g (>=3.3.5) xlib6g is to be removed. dpkg: regarding xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb containing xlibs: xlibs conflicts with xlib6g (<<4.0) xlib6g (version 3.3.6-10) is installed. dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installed xlibs Errors were encountered while processing: xlibs_4.0.2-1_i3386.deb Trying to fix it I did this: #apt-get -f install Reading Package List .... Done Building Dependency Tree ... Done Correcting dependencies ... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: atlas2-dev blas-dev blt-dev g++ lam2-dev libc6-dev libgc5-dev libgimp1.1.17-dev libgtk1.2-dbg lingtk1.2-dev libncurses5-dev libstdc++2.10-dev locales task-parallel-computing-dev task-tcltk-dev task-x-window-system tcl8.2-dev tk8.2-dev tktable-dev xlib6g-dev 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded. bla .... bla ..... What can I do to fix this? BTW I'm on a potato box using the 2.2.17 kernel. I downloaded the xlib6g-package (4.0.2-1) from testing and libxaw6-package which it depends on too. But I can't install the new xlib6g-package! It get's me an error - it complains that it is not a debian archive ..... dpkg: error processing xlib6g_4.0.2-1_all.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: xlib6g_4.0.2-1_all.deb Any help appreciated !!!! Philipp