Ive used apt-get in the past, but not recently. I maintain a local copy of the fedora2 archive, and do a genbasedir $TOP os updates after each update. my /etc/apt/sources.list file has the line rpm ftp://orion apt/fedora2/ updates in it, which was the only uncommented line in the past. So, Im missing something, as now I get the error message: [reg@orion apt]$ apt-get update Fetching list of repositories/mirrors... /var/state/apt/mirrors.list.new: Permission denied E: Failed to fetch mirror list file: What is this trying to tell me? -- Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx