Anne Wilson wrote: > It was necessary to run updatedb. It seems that Smart needed to build its > own database before KPackage could run. It is now loaded, listing the > packages, but every package appears to have a red X over it. Any idea > what that means? Well, I tried KPackage for a few minutes lately. I found it to be extremely buggy to the point of being entirely unusable. I strongly recommend not using it. KPackageKit is the way to go. I think KPackage is likely to go away upstream soon, or at least move to extragear or even playground. It doesn't look actively maintained and it's just horribly buggy. Kevin Kofler