dpkg doesn't deal with dependencies. "apt-get" does, "aptitude" does, dpkg *doesn't*.

The same stands for rpm: rpm doesn't deal with dependencies, yum *does* (or urpmi in mandrake/mandriva distributions)

I rather have *three* monitors :D

Maybe someday.... hehe

That's a pretty nice system Rubberman!

Rubberman: SELinux is highly tied up to the kernel.

Distro? is it updated? do you have all the necessary python packages installed?

We need much more information that just an error

Regards

Have you tried using alien?

Besides, if you are in a Debian system... why don't you use a .deb package?