apsfilter and dselect

I'm having a hard time printing and decided to use dselect to load apsfilter. When dselect ran the configuration for apsfilter I noticed that several programs apsfilter used were not there. g3cut html2ps pnmtolps ras2ps recode bunzip compress melt pack Of this list, html2ps and recode I found

I have a hardware question.

I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 Air and have become inspired by Debian. I want to run Debian. Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound Blaster Live audio card. If I install Slink, do I get support for these two peices of hardware? Or do I have to wait for Potato to come