Justin Willmert wrote: > 3) Now you should be able to download the initscripts package, and > reinstall it (try an upgrade, and if that won't work, do an install with > the --force option) As a general principle, try not to use --force. You're over-riding checks that are there for a reason. If you must over-ride them, just over-ride the check that's a problem. In this case, the --oldpackage option should do the job. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | SSH over the mobile on orange GPRS though, has the @westexe.demon.co.uk | latency of the sat, and the bandwidth of wet string. I | might be insulting wet string though. | -- Chloe