I wrote a quitk script, figured it could probably be used, so here ya go: requirements: php5-cli/php4-cli and deborphan #!/usr/bin/php <?php $list=array(); exec("deborphan",$list); if (count($list)==0) { echo "There are no packages that deborphan can find to be removed.\n"; return 0; } $packages=implode(" ",$list); echo "The following ".count($list)." packages will be removed: ".$packages.".\n"; exec("dpkg --purge ".$packages); echo "done\n"; ?> Thanks, _|_|_|_|_| _| _|_|_|_| _| _|_|_| _| _|_|_| _| _| _| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_|_|_| _|_|_| Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com msn: tyler at tysdomain.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127