Well, I went through the CD's one at a time and installed every yast2 pkg I could find so I could at least install the rest of the packages. Ya know what..even though yast2-ncurses is installed and is in the rpm db. It pukes saying I have to install yast2-ncurses. I'm not happy about this. * dep (dep@linuxandmain.com) [021004 20:14]: ->begin Ben Rosenberg's quote: ->| Wow! What a shitass update. 8.1 couldn't read CD2 so it didn't ->| install the other ..oh 1.1G of updates and barely anything works on ->| my box. Fine job guys. -> ->have you *ever* had an update work? i sure as hell haven't. sorry to ->hear it's not working, because by multiple accounts, 8.1 ain't bad. ->-- ->dep -> ->http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the ->envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Competing with Linux is like nailing jello to a tree." -