Oh yes, Champagne, my kpackage certainly does fetch the dependencies when I choose to install something (in the next dialog, seeing the dependencies I have sometimes said, FORGET it when I don't have time for a big download for what I thought would be a 200kb proggy).

Does yours function like this: After picking something to install in the first dialog by checking the little button for it, I click on "install marked", after it requests root password the next dialog that comes up lists on the left-hand side the package(s) I checked off AND any dependencies for them. The checkbox "ignore missing" must NOT be checked off - it should be unchecked in order to get the dependencies. Perhaps some versions of kpackage had that checked by default?

When you click on Install, the right hand pane will give a quick little synopsis of what is going to happen, how many packages to be upgraded, new, and (be careful!) removed as it starts downloading.

It is at this point I have sometimes hollered WHOA I don't know what it was earlier today I was going to install that had a conflict (since as usual I had picked out a bunch of unrelated things on my shopping "spree") but it was going to UNinstall the bulk of KDE CANCEL

Barring stuff like that, try it out on something simple sometime. In the first dialog look for a little package that you don't have a dependency for (which will be noted by it being in italics in the right hand pane with the description of the pkg you are interested in). Then go to install it. You should see it bring in the dependencies in the next dialog.

I guess I will be called a lamer for not using the command line for this (or at least not much anymore) but I really love being able to scroll/stroll through the "aisles" of the "store". It is one of the few things in linux that I genuinely prefer having a front end/gui for.

I did try synaptic. To be honest I forget why I didn't carry on with it. Perhaps will take another look it. Installing an update to synaptic with KPackage as I type