Okay. here is what is happening. I am trying to compile the latest of ayttm and it says that it is checking for this and checking for that and it usually answers 'yes' but sometime says 'no'. After it was done the thought came that the lines with the 'no' answer needed to be downloaded. Fortunately, as the lines were inspected it was seen that it was not the case. What especially blew the whistle was when I came to the line: checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.7... no *** The esd-config script installed by ESD could not be found *** If ESD was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the ESD_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to esd-config. checking for artsc-config... /usr/bin/artsc-config checking for ARTS... automatic: ERROR executing arts_init(): can't connect to aRts soundserver no *** Could not run ARTS test program, checking why... *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means *** that the run-time linker is not finding ARTS or finding the wrong *** version of ARTS. If it is not finding ARTS, you'll need to set your *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point *** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that *** is required on your system *** *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH So this must be how it alerts you to problems. Soooooooo, I googled here and I googled there in all search of elusive animal ESD - version >= 0.2.7. Yet it is no where to be found. I think this means I need to be able to do Debian unstable. Is this correct? If it is please tell me how to enable this. Further, I would like to know (after this is enabled) that synaptic wouldbe able to do unstable. Well it is also desired to know if it would not. -- <:-)~MIKE~(-:> Following is the configure output. (thanks to Chis for informing me what ./ does) but that leaves another question: why do you need to put the ./ if you are in that directory? knoppix@bmike1:~/Downloads/ayttm-0.4.5/ayttm-0.4.5$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... 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If it is not finding ARTS, you'll need to set your *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point *** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that *** is required on your system *** *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH checking for glib-config... /usr/bin/glib-config checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... yes checking for gtk-config... /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... yes checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-config checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version >= 0.2.5... yes checking for jasper... no configure: WARNING: Unable to find jasper, you won't be able to view webcams checking for openssl... yes checking X11/Xlib.h usability... yes checking X11/Xlib.h presence... yes checking for X11/Xlib.h... yes checking for X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h... yes checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXss... yes checking for gpgme-config... no checking for GPGME - version >= 0.3.9... no configure: WARNING: You need gpgme to compile the aycryption module configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating ayttm.spec config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating libproxy/Makefile config.status: creating po/Makefile.in config.status: creating m4/Makefile config.status: creating modules/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aim-toc/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aim-toc/libtoc/Makefile config.status: creating modules/icq-toc/Makefile config.status: creating modules/icq-toc/libtoc/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aim-oscar/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aim-oscar/libfaim/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aim-oscar/libfaim/include/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aim-oscar/libfaim/src/Makefile config.status: creating modules/icq/Makefile config.status: creating modules/icq/libicq/Makefile config.status: creating modules/importers/Makefile config.status: creating modules/irc/Makefile config.status: creating modules/smtp/Makefile config.status: creating modules/livejournal/Makefile config.status: creating modules/jabber/Makefile config.status: creating modules/jabber/libjabber/Makefile config.status: creating modules/jabber/libjabber/include/Makefile config.status: creating modules/jabber/libjabber/include/jabber/Makefile config.status: creating modules/jabber/libxode/Makefile config.status: creating modules/jabber/libxode/include/Makefile config.status: creating modules/msn2/Makefile config.status: creating modules/msn2/libmsn2/Makefile config.status: creating modules/aycryption/Makefile config.status: creating modules/utility/Makefile config.status: creating modules/yahoo2/Makefile config.status: creating modules/yahoo2/libyahoo2/Makefile config.status: creating modules/workwizu/Makefile config.status: creating modules/smileys/Makefile config.status: creating modules/smileys/console_smileys/Makefile config.status: creating modules/smileys/giles_smiles/Makefile config.status: creating pixmaps/Makefile config.status: creating sounds/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/gtk/Makefile config.status: creating mingw32/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: creating po/POTFILES config.status: creating po/Makefile Ayttm 0.4.5-1 configured with the following plugins: msn2 yahoo2 irc jabber aim-toc icq-toc This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. 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