Hi, I have recently been trying to get YaST2 Online Update working and can't ... two people have been particularly helpful; Arjen de Korte & Richard Bos who suggested fou4s & apt4rpm respectively and I am most grateful to them for that. All of these packages (and I am still working with the latter as Richard informs me I have probably/possibly got the installation wrong) exhibit similar symptoms in that they are unable to communicate with the internet (this despite the fact that I DO have a working proxied internet connection) and I am almost certain that this is where my real problem lies. Obviously these programs do not (cannot?) take their connection configuration parameters from the base KDE3 (same as Konqueror 3) proxy configuration settings as that works for Konqueror Browsing but not for YOU, fou4s or apt4rpm. Nor (though I am less sure about this) do they take them from YaST2 --> System --> Sysconfig Editor --> Network --> Proxy --> FTP_PROXY & HTTP_PROXY which reflects itself in the /etc/sysconfig/proxy file. I say I am less sure about that because I may have put in the wrong information or it may simply not work with the proxy that I have which is IP address & port based (i.e. 192.168.1.1:3128) so my FTP_PROXY & HTTP_PROXY settings (as in the file mentioned above) are set as: HTTP_PROXY="http://192.168.1.1:3128" FTP_PROXY="http://192.168.1.1:3128" I have also tried: HTTP_PROXY="192.168.1.1:3128" FTP_PROXY="192.168.1.1:3128" and others but with no success. These settings do not apparently reflect themselves as memory variable which is what I assume the command SET does i.e. much the same as the DOS command SET. Does anyone actually know for sure exactly where it these applications (any of them) get their proxy connection info from and exactly what format that configuration info can or should take (like I say my home proxy is based on IP and port). Thanks JamesJames C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com