> I have another experience. After I have installed Debian, my package > management program becomes a mess, and I install new packages with > dpkg after downloading from the Debian site. Although > I do not run gnome, I installed gnumeric this way (in Potato), and had > to install only a few extra packages (do not remember which ones, > but less than five) because of dependencies. Gnumeric runs fairly well > now.
I was quite surprised with Opera also... Since it's a QT application, I was concerned that I'd need to install various qt libs and possibly even some KDE, depending on how things were packaged. Luckily, it only req'd (not including what I already had installed) libqt2. Hall
