<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Michael and all who helped, Thanks for shedding some light. Turns out that depsite dpkg returning lots of dependency errors, Gnumeric somehow got installed, seems to be working fine somehow. I find it extremely impressive that Gnumeric 1.4.0 made it in Ubuntu litterally in real time, so I may try Hoary then. After all what do I have to lose, I can just install Hoary on a new hard drive and keep Warty as well, just in case I am having serious troubles with Hoary. If I may ask you just one stupid question.... if I updgrade to Hoary.... once you have finished designing 'usplash', will it be available to hoary as soon, or will it only make it to the stable release, in april ? Vince <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> You can easily add the "hoary" distribution to the list of your repositories. I wouldn't recommend to do this unless you are aware of the risks. It's a development branch that may fail spectacular. If you nevertheless want to use it go to the synaptic repository editor and search the "warty" distribution and change it to "hoary". (you may also have a look at <A HREF="https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PinningHowto">https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PinningHowto</A> for yet another way to get gnumeric without complettely switching to hoary). > So I just pulled all the packages (ie, it still needed many > dependencies) using gFTP. [..] I wouldn't recommand that method it leads to all sorts of problem (as you already experienced) when you try to hunt down the dependencies manually and try to install them via "dpkg -i <pkg>". Apt (and synaptic) are really good at keeping your system in a consistent state. bye, Michael </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>