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Hi again, I am new to using SuSE 8.1, as well as with apt4rpm and still consider myself a newbie in general vis a vis SuSE. I have three problems with apt, that I believe may be interrelated: 1) The first problem is listed below. It looks to me as if either the structure of the repository has changed or there is some other sort of problem with it. Alternatively, I could of course edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, but I am unsure as to what is supposed to reside in these repository directories: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.packman-i386 Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.packman-i386.bz2: No such file or directory. ' Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.packman-noarch Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.packman-noarch.bz2: No such file or directory. ' Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.packman-i386 Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.packman-i386.bz2: No such file or directory. ' Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.packman-noarch Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.packman-noarch.bz2: No such file or directory. ' Reading Package Lists... Done Likewise, I am unsure if the following is a related error to the above or something different entirely: Collecting File Provides... Error! E: could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.packman-i386: E: Problem opening /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.packman-i386 E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. 2) I had to install synaptic using the latest rpm as a result of the above problems. That shouldn't cause the following error though, should it? valhalla:/home/brian # synaptic Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison) Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 3) The following seems to be related to the second series of error messages in #1, but I unfortunately am at a loss: valhalla:/home/brian # apt-get install ooopi Reading Package Lists... Done Collecting File Provides... Error! E: could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.packman-i386: E: Problem opening /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.packman-i386 E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. As a side note, the above apt-get install command is for "ooopi" a dictionary utility to be used with OpenOffice.org. I haven't found anything in the sources.list that includes OpenOffice.org, of course it would depend on whether OpenOffice.org is included in the repository or not. Does anyone know, or is there another repository that contains OpenOffice.org bits? Cheers, Brian