On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:41:55PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Here's what that gives: > Package `desktop' is not installed and no info is available. Alright. After a 'dpkg -l | grep "desktop"', I get a new package mentioned...desktop-base. You can try: # dpkg-reconfigure desktop-base ...and see if you get the real configuration screen to come back up. debconf controls so much in debian, it's hard to tweak most things without breaking something, or having your configs over-written these days.. I'm thinking of going to LFS and stripping everything back down to bedrock linux. Michael