> In my Opinion up2date is only the GUI for Yum. Not true. up2date and yum share some code but not a huge amount. Moreover up2date is important to red hat for rhn. > But you can use APT-get from http://freshrpms.net > to update and install programs (xine, gkrellm , gnome-alsamixer etc.pp) you can use yum to do this too, You can also use up2date to do this. -sv