After installing SAPDB, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache or any other program from the distribution CDs using YaST how would I go about using RPM or YaST to update those (installed) programs to their latest versions if the updates are not on the SuSE update servers? Thanks for your help, Kevin P.S. I have tried using YaST for updating installed packages from downloaded rpms but it complains it can't find the update or some other message and doesn't carry out the update. I know ... this description doesn't help for actually fixing the problem in YaST (if one exists). I have not tried using RPM to update existing installation yet but I am going to try updating SAPDB to see what happens. I try to use the existing management tools as much as possible to cut down on errors but if the installation program cannot (does not) properly allow manually ***updating already installed*** programs then I do believe this is a problem that should be addressed by SuSE. YaST should allow an installed program update to be as simple as the following: 1) user downloads rpm or tar.gz to disk. 2) fire up YaST and select Install/Update or remove software. [ notice the /Update added in the menu option :-) ] 3) find installed package in list. 4) select update package 5) specify directory where new version is. 6) execute. PRESTO !!! The existing files are updated/replaced, the YaST/RPM db is updated and we are done.