I believe Knoppix 7.7.2 ships with Adriane 1.7-6, not that I could tell you what changed between the two versions. I can tell you that at least two of the individual components of Adriane may give you dependency issues: Adriane-screenreader depends on sbl, and while there are .debs for sbl available from the knoppix repository, they are only available in i386, though the sbl source code if available from openblinux.de. Adriane-x depends on knoppix-startorca, which does not have any .deb packages. As I was not aware of the adriane.tar.gz, I couldn't tell you if this particular script is included in there. Most other Adriane components can fulfill their dependencies from the main section of the Debian repositories. Presumably, this means most of Adriane's dependencies should be available from repositories on most general-purpose distros. Also, the adriane package itself is a metapackage. Mostly, the scripts that make up Adriane produce nice menus when working in text mode and calls various terminal applications as needed, allowing less experienced users to make use of those applications without needing to learn their command line syntax, though it also includes an option to drop down to the terminal or launch an x-session, and on the latter, gives an option between launching a stripped down x-session for just Firefox or LibreOffice or launching an entire desktop Environment. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list