For this example, Synaptic displays its progress dialog with the two bars moving together left to right and then stopping about 1/3 of the way. Synaptic then reloads it indexes and displays the packages selected for installation or removal. (rpm -qv synaptic -> synaptic-0.48.2-rb1.) This type of error has happened on Pro 9.0 thru -215 using KDE 3.1 & 3.2+ rar_3.3.0-0.pm.1_i586.rpm is chosen. Synamptic adds dependenciy a52dec_0.7.4-3.pm.0_i686.rpm and the removal of the obsoleted unrar-3.2.2-36. By hand, rpm -iv a52dec_0.7.4-3.pm.0_i686.rpm gives error message "warning: a52dec_0.7.4-3.pm.0_i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5f6842a4," which must be what Synaptic is quitting on. It's reasonable not to install the RPM but Synaptic should show the errors. Am I overlooking something here? -- Phil