Ok so finally I got my internet and GNUmed on the same machine for the first time this wek ...
Here we go:
For some reason the tarballs for the rc2 series of v11 do not bootstrap v10 to v11 as they did with prevous packages, AND the client 5.0rc2 "gm-from-cvs.sh" is missing in the tarball.
So ... I could NOT upgrade the server or start the client.
Remember I do NOT install gnumed via apt-get ... I just run them from tarball.
Installing form apt-get makes openoffice as a dependency and I run Broffice (the pt_br flavor of openoffice with the brazilian dictionary) and installing us-openoffice would be a big step back for me.