Here's what I mean by counters running backwards: mcasadevall@dawn:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for mcasadevall: Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg [-189B] Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg [-189B] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Translation-en_US Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release [-57,242B] Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid Release [-57,242B] Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release Get:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages [-1,371,481B] Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources [-658,385B] Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources [-3,534B] Get:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages [-552B] Get:9 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages [-5,198,403B] Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources [-3,110,220B] Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources [-122,686B] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources Get:12 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages [-167,351B] Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages Hit http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources Fetched -10,747,474B in 57s (-188,102B/s) Reading package lists... Done mcasadevall@dawn:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep libtool Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: autoconf automake autotools-dev build-essential cvs debhelper diffstat dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 gettext gfortran gfortran-4.4 html2text intltool-debian libgfortran3 libmail-sendmail-perl libstdc++6-4.4-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl m4 patch po-debconf quilt texi2html texinfo zlib1g-dev 0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get -15,951,878B/-17,580,566B of archives. After this operation, -53,309,440B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main libstdc++6-4.4-dev 4.4.2-9ubuntu3 [-1,602,288B] Get:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main g++-4.4 4.4.2-9ubuntu3 [-3,918,540B] Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main g++ 4:4.4.2-3ubuntu1 [-1,436B] Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main patch 2.6-2 [-120,694B] Get:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main dpkg-dev 1.15.4.1ubuntu1 [-573,406B] Get:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main build-essential 11.4 [-7,198B] Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main cvs 1:1.12.13-12ubuntu1 [-1,689,452B] Get:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main html2text 1.3.2a-14 [-102,670B] Get:9 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main gettext 0.17-8ubuntu2 [-1,734,778B] Get:10 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 [-31,574B] Get:11 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main po-debconf 1.0.16 [-223,924B] Get:12 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main debhelper 7.4.10ubuntu1 [-462,814B] Get:13 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main diffstat 1.47-1 [-23,902B] Get:14 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main fakeroot 1.14.4-1ubuntu1 [-96,906B] Get:15 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main libgfortran3 4.4.2-9ubuntu3 [-209,920B] Get:16 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main gfortran-4.4 4.4.2-9ubuntu3 [-3,656,978B] Get:17 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main gfortran 4:4.4.2-3ubuntu1 [-1,202B] Get:18 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main libsys-hostname-long-perl 1.4-2 [-11,388B] Get:19 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main libmail-sendmail-perl 0.79.16-1 [-26,546B] Get:20 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main quilt 0.48-1ubuntu1 [-317,002B] Get:21 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main texi2html 1.82-1 [-444,606B] Get:22 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main texinfo 4.13a.dfsg.1-4ubuntu1 [-534,364B] Get:23 http://ports.ubuntu.com lucid/main zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1 [-160,290B] Fetched -15,046,697B in 42s (-357,503B/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package m4. The 2.6.32 rebase doesn't seem to have helped with the thumb2 quirks.