[Johnbb]

thank you for your answer Falko I tried this and got the message shown below. I looked in the Ubuntu packge add/remove for python and was informed that python is present. so what gives? what do I need to download if anything and from where?

john@johns-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg -i /home/john/Documents/vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux_1.0_gutsy_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux.
(Reading database ... 152816 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux (from .../vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux_1.0_gutsy_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux:
vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux depends on python-twisted; however:
Package python-twisted is not installed.
vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux depends on python-pysqlite2; however:
Package python-pysqlite2 is not installed.
vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux depends on python-serial; however:
Package python-serial is not installed.
dpkg: error processing vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux
john@johns-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f

Thanks in advance
John