I am running Woody. I also just downloaded (through the Debian package page) ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb, and tried dpkg -i. Same problem. So, I changed the command in /etc/modutils/0keep to something harmless (ls) and tried again. This was the result: --- (Reading database ... 65884 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ppp 2.4.1-1 (using ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ppp ... /etc/modutils/actions: post-install: command not found /etc/modutils/actions: post-remove: command not found dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/modutils/actions: post-install: command not found /etc/modutils/actions: post-remove: command not found dpkg: error processing ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127 /etc/modutils/actions: post-install: command not found /etc/modutils/actions: post-remove: command not found dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: ppp_2.4.1-4_i386.deb --- This was, mind you, using dpkg -i. So what do I do? Every time I run apt-get, it sees that it has an uninstalled upgrade for ppp and tried to install it. The bug list didn't seem to have anything about it. I don't know the internals of the packaging system, so I don't know how to remove it from the queue. :Peter