On Sun, 2017-07-02 at 14:51 -0400, zap wrote:
>
> I appear to be getting conflicts, so I must need sysvinit-utils in
> deb
> form.
> this probably is the last thing I need at the moment to make it
> work...

Sorry, but you have to show us what conflicts you see... And your
/etc/apt/sources.list, and your commands used.