Hi: With debian, you can look at the package lists and see the dependancies for those packages. So if you really wanted to install just the ones you needed, you could browse the package lists and make a note of the ones you need. I've not done a debian install for awhile but I think you can manually select the packages you want, then debian should deal with the dependancies anyway, so you shouldn't need to do this. How people running other distros know what they need installed to run stuff is sometimes beyond me. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> ICQ number 43634701
