"M. Knisely" <charon79m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Here's an interesting tool to get a lot of the things installed on a normal home system. I'll be giving this a shot on an home system and let you all know how it goes. Here's the basics of it: http://getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Here's the packages it installs: http://getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Automatix_for_%28X%29Ubuntu Again, I'll report back after I've played with it. Mike K. lol "PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL (23) IF YOU ARE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IT IS ILLEGAL TO DO SO" will enable faster debian based installs if the files are on local hard drive. the dpkg list Mike B. was helping me with can do same kind of install without being online. good luck with this test ,Mike. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.