I just saw Bob's post about kbear. I've used gftp but it sucks my CPU dead when transferring huge trees and it crashes a lot. :( So being the lazy admin type I did an apt-get kbear. Nothing found. :( So I go looking for the source... A quick search of freshmeat revealed the Kbear project. Bob was nice enough to make a RH7.3 RPM for the world. http://kbear.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download Thanks Bob! The failed apt-get got me to thinking about building my own extras repository or using someone elses... Using someone else's lead to the question, what else do they have in that repository? And when they update date it, what did they change? Does anyone know of a tool (text or gui) that will let me view the local apt-get database files to see what's available since the last apt-get update? If not does anyone know what format the db files are in? I've looked a little and I can't find anything about that either. -- Chris MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant / Solitaire Expert f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.