"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do you have build-essential installed? Do you have dpkg-dev installed? How > about debhelper? Those 3 should clear most things up.
Looks like it didn't help. This is a fresh install now. I selected all the devel stuff in taskel dpkg -l |grep 'debhel\|build-ess\|dpkg-dev' expi:~# dpkg -l |grep 'debhel\|build-ess\|dpkg-dev' ii build-essentia 6 Informational list of build-essential packag ii debhelper 3.4.1 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.9.19 Package building tools for Debian Still apt-get -b source vim Fails with the same message as reported. Its not essential that I get this working right now. I can install the binaries. This was a trial for some planned activity. I selected nearly a full install in tasksel leaving out only the newsserver and foreign language stuff.