I'm answering you below: That looks like a problem with your network in general. I have never seen the AM block on its own when a download fails for some reason. It is, however, very possible that the download itself blocks because of bad connectivity. The download will eventually timeout in the kernel. That is surely the reason, as I was connected against a router handling many P2P connections. ?Any chance of pushing up the timeout window for the AM? Also, the AM will attempt to download from different servers in parallel, just like "apt-get update". So, if one of the servers does not respond, and the download doesn't finish, you should be able to cancel it at that point and the already downloaded repository indices should be used (contrary to the error message that says that the "Last refreshed list is shown".) So, the indices are updated for all the repos except for the ones which do fail, OR for all the repos before the one that fails? How do I know if the AM is actually doing something or just waiting until timeout occurs for all the missed repositories? There is a new feature coming where repositories can be added to the AM by just clicking on a link in the web browser. (You can also install packages that way.) Looking forward this feature =) Somewhere in list I read that users should forget the previous proccess for installing packages and do it all through repositories. Is there any danger in using .DEB/.ARM files instead of the AM? Maybe any of them would not be listed/ posible to uninstall/get their dependencies checked? I agree that the error reporting when a "Refresh list of packages" fails could be much improved. It's in the queue... I'm pretty sure that queue is miles long... is one of the wonderful things about open source software that it may and shall be improved in so many different ways, all round the world, all round the clock :))) Hmm, a tree-view doesn't fit with the "bread crumb trail" (or "navbar") approach of the AM according to our UI people. However, they seem to like the "Tag Cloud" idea... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud). Haha, my vote goes for the flickr-like tag-cloud (if it does not burst the 250 MHz CPU down to ashes, of course ;) Hopefully, it is easy enough for developers to put packages into the "contrib" repository associated with garage.maemo.org, for example. Also, the "single-click-install" feature mentioned above should help. I am also wondering whether there will be easy-to-update kernel, libraries & applications updated for this platform. Surely many Linux users are looking forward a visual user-friendly tool for the updating of their kernels and that could initiate a two-way applications-porting flux from maemo to the rest of the linux universe... Thanks for your time and attention! Regards, P.S: I`m too looking forward a lightweight port of the gnumeric spreadsheet for IT2006 -> one of the most useful application of all times on the palm of my hand ############################### VISITA MI BLOG: http://alfonsoycia.blogspot.com/ ############################### --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y m?viles desde 1 c?ntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060818/ec3d2de3/attachment.htm
