Performing up2date --help gives me allways the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1248, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 355, in main (options, pkgNames) = optparser.parse_args() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1129, in parse_args stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1169, in _process_args self._process_long_opt(rargs, values) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1244, in _process_long_opt option.process(opt, value, values, self) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 611, in process return self.take_action( File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 632, in take_action parser.print_help() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 89, in print_help OptionParser.print_help(self, file) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/optparse.py", line 1370, in print_help file.write(self.format_help()) TypeError: descriptor 'write' requires a 'file' object but received a 'str' ,Folke