--- Please enter the report below this line. --- the current package of slib has several problem which prevent it from working with mit-scheme 9.0.1. 1) running slib when mit-scheme is the default scheme on the machine throws an error regarding "(runtime syntactic-closures)" see brief discussion here: http://www.mail-archive.com/slib-discuss@gnu.org/msg00056.html the current cvs version on savnnah (3b3) has this fixed. 2) the default paths slib searches for are under /usr/local, violating debian policy and the actual paths where slib is installed. these can be fixed by a package patch equivalent to running $ sudo sed -i *.scm *.init -e 's#/usr/local/lib/slib#/usr/share/slib#' in the /usr/share/slib directory 3) slib and it's require mechanism rely on a catalog file called slibcat which is generated dynamically if the file cannot be found. the path where slib tried to generate this file , under /usr/lib/mit-scheme-i386/, requires admin permissions and fails when the user runs slib under his own id. running the command sudo mit-scheme --load /usr/share/slib/mitscheme.init --eval "(require 'printf)" once after the previous issues are fixed creates this catalog file, which can then be accessed by any user running slib normally. Debian Release: wheezy/sid 700 debian packages.linuxmint.com 500 testing www.debian-multimedia.org 500 testing security.debian.org 500 testing mirror.isoc.org.il 500 testing ftp.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =============================-+-============= dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | 1.16.0.3 OR install-info | 4.13a.dfsg.1-8 Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty.