My mistake perhaps, but I added a repository to the sources list and now I get a signature check every time I open the software manager. Fortunately it offers me a "Do not show this message again" check box. - Unfortunately it ignores it and continues to show me that message again each time I run it. To fix this I disabled all but the original installation DVD using "Installation Source". - But I still get the Signature check message anyway. Along with the "Do not show this message again" option. :) Anyway, to the point: I'm running "Software Management" because I want to install something. Perhaps as reward for doing all of the above (maybe not), I now get the following in response to trying to add an RPM in "Software Management": --- error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index Whatever all of that means. But as a general comment, package management always seems to offer a unique set of frustrations in suse. Probably my ignorance, but it just does not seem to work as well as does apt in something like ubuntu. I've either got to set the repositories to manual refresh in the "Installation Sources" and hope to manually refresh them frequently enough for "Software Management" to work, or I can make them auto-refresh and risk waiting an afternoon and a day for "Software Management" to finish timing out on unresponsive servers. Why is the burden of finding today's set of good mirrors mine? Should I really have to do this prior to each refresh? So then I get Software Management "to the prompt" (so to speak), and I'll get error pop-ups that the installation source is not available. I'll get this even on a good day, when all the mirrors and all of the refreshes happened quickly. So its frustrating and all the more so with the new wrinkle above. Apologies in advance .. I've not even hit SEND yet and I already feel guilty rattling off at what is otherwise such an excellent distro. (But I'm going to do it anyway) :)