Hi. If you use aptitude, it will go much faster. Since aptitude groups packages by catagory, you can find all the X packages easily. Hope this helps. Kenny On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:54:48AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Thanks, Cheryl. That got me another package. > > I guess I'm finding out there's no way other than to dribble them off > one at a time--or maybe a dozen at a time. I suspect there are quite a > few more there, though. > > Oh well. At least the hd isn't starved for meaningful updates at this > point. So the emergency has gone out of the issue at least.