Thanks David,
On 25 Feb 2002, at 6:17, David Roundy wrote: > We need to know more about what actually is happening. 'X cannot > find what it needs' and 'deselect cannot find what it needs' do not > really help us. What kind of errors are you getting? It couldn't find any of its paths although echo $PATH indicated all paths were in place. Dselect couldn't find its paths and files either. > Have you tried using apt-get instead of dselect? I did use apt-get update. Then installed the software with dselect. Since your message I reinstalled deb 2. How do I upgrade to deb3(testing) without this problem again. I have the 200 meg downloaded and I kept the packages list, so I shouldn't have to download them again. cheers, Mike