Triied installing task manager full, minimal and the manual method - problem is broken dependencies.  So, on the minimal install:

task-gnome-minimal:
 Depends: gnome-panel (>=2.20.2) but it is not installable
 Depends: gnome-terminal (>=2.18.3) but it is not installable
 Depends: nautilus but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: yelp but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: gnome-control-center (>=2.20.0.1) but it is not installable
 Depends: gnome-volume-manager (>=1.5.15) but it is not installable

Already tried updating the OS via synaptic, but it broke the system and left me with aan unusable OS.  Seems there is no obvious way of adding anything on from repositories without messing up the system, aand no way of updating the system.  This is why I don't use linux - but I thought PClinux looked OK.

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