Some minutes ago a new apt component with a high experimental character has become available. This component provide the rpms that the suse employees releases from their own directories. To be able to obtain the right rpms a filter is required, doing it's best look for the right rpms. That latter is not trivial as their no convention at all used to store the rpms. E.g. some 8.0 rpms are stored as .../8.0/ others are as .../8.0-i386/... etc. Or an rpm meant for the "ppc" architecture is not marked as such.... So be warned the rpms provided in the apt component are most likely the correct ones, but it could be that the used filter is not correct and you're going to install the wrong rpm for your SuSE version. The new component is called "suse-people" :) The 7.3 "suse-people" component provides: 244 rpms The 8.0 "suse-people" component provides: 233 rpms The 8.1 "suse-people" component provides: 47 rpms It means that e.g. jpilot is now available via apt: # apt-get -s install jpilot Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: perl-PDA-Pilot pilot-link The following NEW packages will be installed: jpilot perl-PDA-Pilot pilot-link 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 removed and 41 not upgraded. Inst perl-PDA-Pilot (0.8.0-279 SuSE:8.0/stable) [] Inst pilot-link (0.10.99-0 SuSE:8.0/stable) Inst jpilot (0.99.2-0 SuSE:8.0/stable) The main question: will this component be usefull, and is it not (too) dangerous to provide it just like that. Remember; the packages from this "suse-people" component must be installed with care! -- Richard