> Oh, how complicated ;-) Whom do you tell ... I would be happy if someone comes up with a simpler method that agrees with Debian's requirements for persistency of configuration changes, and at the same time not providing a single big texlive package ;-) All the best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13