I have a machine with SuSE 8.2 and the most recent synaptic from Richard Bos's suser 8.2 directory (which is not the very latest)... Synaptic appears to work totally fine in selecting packages to upgrade, delete, install, etc. It downloads the packages just fine, but when it goes to install/upgrade/remove them, it flashes for a moment, then returns to the screen where one can select packages to install/upgrade/remove. It doesn't complain about the lock file, and packages tagged for downloading have indeed been downloaded. (I've been installling them manually with rpm). Any ideas? Thanks! Mark -- _____________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive???