Hi, I followed all the directions on http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ from a clean SuSE install and got a broken system: not able to log on as root afterwards and my fonts changed to something screwy. I did apt-get update and then upgrade. I believe the xfree86 file was initially removed as i could not get back into x. fixed this by installing it. Maybe I upgraded the kernel by mistake. Anyway I'm sticking with Yast and am not going to risk crippling my system again. Also updating to KDE3.1 is easier by just downloading the files as was suggested on this web site. I know that other people have had success with APT, but for me I seemed to have more dependency issues: missing kdebase package was one example. just thought some new might want to be careful with this.