Hi again: I don't understand what problems are having people using synaptic. My system is 256 MB and runs very well. Apt-rpm + synaptic is fantastic for me. Some times seems to be a delay after download packages and the rpm -e/Uv/-i process, but never has been more than 5 minutes, if your system seems to freeze, be patient to be sure that is freezing really. Please, remember that sometimes rpm 'freezes' but is not synaptic problem, is rpm problem and any tool using rpm can be affected and if rpm freezes, the tool using rpm will get freezed. If anybody gets this freezes try to kill synaptic or the tool using rpm. Kill any proceses related to rpm and go to /var/lib/rpm and delete this three files __db.001, __db.002, __db.003 Try synaptic or rpm again. HTH Regards David Ballester Montolio Responsable Sistemas y Comunicaciones Kern Pharma, S.L. www.kernpharma.com GNU! I'd always found it to be slow and buggy on my RH7.3 then after an upgrade, RH9 box. It seemed like anytime I did anything other than just upgrading packages, it'd freeze up after downloading them, but before installing/removing packages. Is my 256MB causing the slowness as another fellow suggested?