Dear Carl, In your response to the quaestion "SLE] Suse 9.3 which repositories effectively replace the old apt repositories?" you said: ------------------------- FYI, I have all three versions installed in parallel on this system: 10.1 is in 'massage' mode pending complete resolution of the rug/zmd issues. 10.0 is my perfectly running and completely customized daily desktop system. 9.3, my former (equally customized) daily desktop, is booted weekly and kept current with respect to updates and maintained as my 'fallback' system. All three are running the same apps at the same versions and are linked to common data sets. -------------------------- I have only two versions running on my system. 9.3 perfectly running and 10.1 amazingly running quit okay. I have tried to link apps like kmail, firefox and Skype to common data sets but have not come further than symlinking /.Skype in my home/cons on the 9.3 version with ~.Skype on 10.1 It works in so far that Skype can be both used without any loss of data on both versions of Suse. But updating Skype is a differnt thing and I assume I must have made a basic error. The Skype on version 9.3 tells me it is the 1.3.0.38 and Skype on the symlinked version on the Suse 10.1 still shows it is the 1.3.0.30 version. Something is not completely right with my idea. How do you keep common data sets?