Using apt since I also have some Debian systems, I tried to locate qcad. This I couldn't find through the apt system, but an rpm package was located. However, when I tried to install: rpm -Uh --test qcad-2.0.3.3-0.fdr.4.2.i386.rpm /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory warning: qcad-2.0.3.3-0.fdr.4.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID ff6382fa error: Failed dependencies: qt >= 1:3.3 is needed by qcad-2.0.3.3-0.fdr.4.2 OK, so let's try to get it: apt-get install qt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: qt: Depends: libXinerama.so.1 E: Broken packages Should I file a bug report? (Or is my system simply full of s...?) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jonhaug@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92