Alexandre Strube wrote: > It it REALLY straightforward. > > 1 Go to a terminal as root. > 2 Install apt-get: rpm -ivh Thanks for your lucid instructions. But how does synaptic interact with up2date? Can one use up2date after using synaptic? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland