I'm running Synaptic .24 and just the other day I tried running it and got the message below. Prior to that I had tried to download a file to install and had some type of error about not being able to complete the download because of some file problem. Anyway, when I start Synaptic, it takes a rather long time to load then I get the message below. **************** could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_opt_Suse_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.ximian: Problem opening /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.fwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_Suse_8.0-i386_base_pkglist.ximian The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. **************** I don't seem to have either file in the above directory. Any thoughts? --- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com