okay, thanks for your interest: here are a few samples... there were many more, as we tried a lot of things on our own before whining for help ;) :~/idzebra-2.0.36# dpkg-buildpackage -b dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value: dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions dpkg-buildpackage: source package idzebra dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.0.32-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64 dpkg-checkbuilddeps: failure: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.) dpkg -i yaz_3.0.6-1_amd64.deb idzebra-2.0_2.0.36-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package yaz. (Reading database ... 62604 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking yaz (from yaz_3.0.6-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package idzebra-2.0. Unpacking idzebra-2.0 (from idzebra-2.0_2.0.36-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of yaz: yaz depends on libyaz3 (>= 3.0.5); however: Package libyaz3 is not installed. dpkg: error processing yaz (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of idzebra-2.0: idzebra-2.0 depends on idzebra-2.0-common; however: Package idzebra-2.0-common is not installed. idzebra-2.0 depends on libidzebra-2.0-dev; however: Package libidzebra-2.0-dev is not installed. idzebra-2.0 depends on idzebra-2.0-utils (= 2.0.36-1); however: Package idzebra-2.0-utils is not installed. idzebra-2.0 depends on libidzebra-2.0-modules; however: Package libidzebra-2.0-modules is not installed. idzebra-2.0 depends on idzebra-2.0-doc; however: Package idzebra-2.0-doc is not installed. dpkg: error processing idzebra-2.0 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: yaz idzebra-2.0 ~# dpkg -i yaz_3.0.6-1_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 62623 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace yaz 3.0.6-1 (using yaz_3.0.6-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement yaz ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of yaz: yaz depends on libyaz3 (>= 3.0.5); however: Package libyaz3 is not installed. dpkg: error processing yaz (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: yaz apt-get install yaz Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done yaz is already the newest version. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: idzebra-2.0: Depends: idzebra-2.0-common but it is not going to be installed Depends: libidzebra-2.0-dev but it is not installable Depends: idzebra-2.0-utils (= 2.0.36-1) but it is not installable Depends: libidzebra-2.0-modules but it is not installable Depends: idzebra-2.0-doc but it is not going to be installed yaz: Depends: libyaz3 (>= 3.0.5) but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). apt-get install idzebra-2.0-common libidzebra-2.0-dev idzebra-2.0-utils libidzebra-2.0-modules idzebra-2.0-doc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libidzebra-2.0-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package libidzebra-2.0-dev has no installation candidate so there are the last 5 or so attempts... any thoughts? Chris and Robert