< export DEBIAN_FRONTEND; apt-get install --yes 'synaptic' ;echo RESULT=$? Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Recommended packages: libgnome2-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: synaptic 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 1694kB of archives. After unpacking 5157kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main synaptic 0.57-2 [1694kB] Fetched 1694kB in 27s (60.7kB/s) *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08a28068 *** /bin/sh: line 1: 6076 Aborted /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt Selecting previously deselected package synaptic. (Reading database ... 272363 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking synaptic (from .../synaptic_0.57-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up synaptic (0.57-2) ... localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 1736K localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 16K Total disk space freed by localepurge: 1752K RESULT=0