Hi, Here are some observations that i made while installing the debian sarge distro according to the howto: Net :: DNS failed badly , that is version Net-DNS-0.56. No reason whatshow ever. Fix: i downloaded : http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/O/OL/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.55.tar.gz And did a: perl Makefile.PL make make install Now my second observation. Some software will be uninstalled by the 'apt-get remove' method. The software seems to be uninstalled, but only if: dpkg -P <package> is used, then all the files and al kind registrations in the apt database are cleanly removed. This boils down to : dpkg -P lpr nfs-common portmap pidentd pcmcia-cs pppoe pppoeconf ppp pppconfig dpkg -P exim4-base exim4-config dpkg -P uw-imapd qpopper ipopd Now all the junk leftovers are cleanly removed Just My € 0.02 Ovis