Hi Tom, first of all I didn't see your reply on the list. To get as many people involved in helping with your problem it is really a good thing to discuss on the list - otherwise people simply don't hear you.
By now, I'm getting the feeling that something with your set is horribly broken - your hardware or the software/installation. I think, however, we can focus on the gcc + cpp + libraries region for now, because I get the impression that dselect's install only fails because of reasons related to these packages. I'm going to show you the correct lines under dselect's select for the involved packages. Please compare them to what you get and maybe you could post the differences (or everything): *** Std devel gcc 2.7.2.1-9 2.7.2.1-9 The GNU C compiler (ELF v *** Std interpre cpp 2.7.2.1-8 2.7.2.1-8 The GNU C preprocessor (E *** Req base ldso 1.8.10-2 1.8.10-2 The Linux dynamic linker, *** Req base libc5 5.4.23-6 5.4.23-6 The Linux C library versi *** Std devel libc5-dev 5.4.23-6 5.4.23-6 The Linux C library versi Oh, and you are absolutely right, it should really be easy to install a Debian system and it nearly always is. So, chin up, will work this out ;-) Regards, Andree PS: Just as I said before, you should really keep the diskussion on the list to get as many people involved as possible, so I think it would be a good idea to resend your mail to me to the list, too. -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburg www: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .