It seems that older versions of synaptic are being used by people on SuSE. 0.24-rb1 is the one that hdbtroll-at-moment.net is running on SuSE 8.0. So, I figured I'd try to compile it from source. I downloaded synaptic-0.24.1 from synaptic's web site. I am getting this compile error when linking: c++ -g -O2 -o synaptic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm gsynaptic.o galertpanel.o rgaboutpanel.o rgcacheprogress.o rgconfigwindow.o rgfetchprogress.o rgfiltereditor.o rgfiltermanager.o rgfilterwindow.o rgdummyinstallprogress.o rgzvtinstallprogress.o rginstallprogress.o rgmainwindow.o rgsrcwindow.o rgvendorswindow.o rgsummarywindow.o rgwindow.o ../common/libraptor.a -lapt-pkg -lrpm -ldb1 -lz -lbz2 -lpopt -lpthread rgcacheprogress.o:/home/marc/synaptic-0.24.1/gtk/rgcacheprogress.cc:32: undefined reference to `typeinfo for OpProgress' rgfetchprogress.o:/home/marc/synaptic-0.24.1/gtk/rgfetchprogress.cc:61: undefined reference to `typeinfo for pkgAcquireStatus' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [synaptic] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/marc/synaptic-0.24.1/gtk' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/marc/synaptic-0.24.1' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 anyone seen this? Thanks, Marc C.