hdcpcd was taken out of debian testing afaik. This means that the entry still existed in your dpkg-databse but there there's no valid file on the server or mirror to download. Sometime this can be overcome by looking in /var/lib/dpkg/available and to see if there's a package with the Rrovides: line containing the package-name you wanted to install. In any case, testing or even unstable sometimes plays tricks on you, I'm running unstable on 2 machines where which sometimes want to remove my ipchains ;) These problems can be a result of broken dependencies or dependencies that wre not ro wrongly updated. Mostly a check back in a couple of days will reveal the problem beeing solved. Running testing and certainly unstable is bleeding-edge, be warned! -- slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!