gnome-system-tools sure seems to depend on libgnome*, it's getting installed along with nautilus and a great deal of gnome. Fresh installation of xubuntu from gutsy 9/04 livecd, no new packages installed. package list was updated at 2am CST. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/20070904/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso lourdes@testbed:~$ sudo aptitude install gnome-system-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: librsvg2-common xubuntu-system-tools The following packages have been automatically kept back: x11-common The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: alacarte binfmt-support capplets-data cdrdao cli-common deskbar-applet desktop-base evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gnome-about gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-utils gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-user-guide gnome-utils gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x imagemagick libao2 libart2.0-cil libavc1394-0 libbeagle0 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcaca0 libcamel1.2-10 libcdio6 libcucul0 libdv4 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libegroupwise1.2-13 libgconf2.0-cil libgda3-3 libgda3-bin libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common libgdl-gnome-1-0 libgksu1.2-1 libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgmime2.2-cil libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-media0 libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libgnome-window-settings1 libgnome2.0-cil libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-cil libgtkhtml2.0-cil libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6 libiec61883-0 liblpint-bonobo0 libmetacity0 libmono-cairo1.0-cil libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil libmono0 libmono2.0-cil libnautilus-burn4 libnautilus-extension1 libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil liboil0.3 libpanel-applet2-0 librarian0 libraw1394-8 librsvg2.0-cil libshout3 libsoup2.2-8 libtotem-plparser7 libtrackerclient0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libwavpack1 libxml2-utils menu menu-xdg metacity metacity-common mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data oss-compat python-beagle python-gmenu python-gnome2 python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gnomecanvas python-soappy tomboy xdg-user-dirs xsltproc yelp The following packages have been kept back: alsa-utils apport apport-gtk cpp gcalctool gcc gcc-4.2-base gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-themes hal hal-info libc6 libc6-i686 libgcc1 libgnome-menu2 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libhal-storage1 libhal1 liboobs-1-3 libstdc++6 libwnck-common libwnck22 python-apport python-launchpad-bugs python-problem-report system-tools-backends update-manager update-manager-core xbase-clients xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all xubuntu-desktop xutils The following NEW packages will be installed: alacarte binfmt-support capplets-data cdrdao cli-common deskbar-applet desktop-base evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common gnome-about gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-utils gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-system-tools gnome-user-guide gnome-utils gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x imagemagick libao2 libart2.0-cil libavc1394-0 libbeagle0 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcaca0 libcamel1.2-10 libcdio6 libcucul0 libdv4 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libegroupwise1.2-13 libgconf2.0-cil libgda3-3 libgda3-bin libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common libgdl-gnome-1-0 libgksu1.2-1 libgksuui1.0-1 libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgmime2.2-cil libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-media0 libgnome-vfs2.0-cil libgnome-window-settings1 libgnome2.0-cil libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-cil libgtkhtml2.0-cil libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6 libiec61883-0 liblpint-bonobo0 libmetacity0 libmono-cairo1.0-cil libmono-corlib1.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-data-tds2.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil libmono-system-data2.0-cil libmono-system-web2.0-cil libmono-system1.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil libmono0 libmono2.0-cil libnautilus-burn4 libnautilus-extension1 libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil liboil0.3 libpanel-applet2-0 librarian0 libraw1394-8 librsvg2.0-cil libshout3 libsoup2.2-8 libtotem-plparser7 libtrackerclient0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvisual-0.4-plugins libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libwavpack1 libxml2-utils menu menu-xdg metacity metacity-common mono-common mono-gac mono-jit mono-runtime nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-data oss-compat python-beagle python-gmenu python-gnome2 python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gnomecanvas python-soappy tomboy xdg-user-dirs xsltproc yelp The following packages will be upgraded: librsvg2-2 1 packages upgraded, 134 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded. Need to get 63.8MB/65.0MB of archives. After unpacking 287MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: xubuntu-system-tools: Conflicts: gnome-system-tools but 2.19.92-0ubuntu1 is to be installed. librsvg2-common: Depends: librsvg2-2 (= 2.18.0-1) but 2.18.2-1 is to be installed. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: xubuntu-system-tools Upgrade the following packages: librsvg2-common [2.18.0-1 (now) -> 2.18.2-1 (gutsy)] Score is 189 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]