This is a dependency bug as far as I can tell: Logging in... curl: (1) libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported! An error was encountered getting the page, retrying [2/3]... curl: (1) libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported! An error was encountered getting the page, retrying [3/3]... curl: (1) libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported! An error was encountered getting the page, retrying [4/3]... curl: (1) libcurl was built with SSL disabled, https: not supported! An error was encountered getting the page. Command was curl "https://lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/dologin" -b /tmp/filecTqkcdgotmail_cookies --data "login=xxx" -s -S -i -m 600 -D /tmp/filecZkHFbgotmail_headers -A "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (Win98; I)" at /usr/bin/gotmail line 420. hollyhop:~# apt-get install curl-ssl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: curl gotmail The following NEW packages will be installed: curl-ssl
Additionally, "pronto" (perl-gtk email client) has a perl-exportation problem, and a few other things going on with it.

