Just FYI. http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO/yum_HOWTO.html This is mostly for Fernando, I dont know how well apt is working out, but I've heard from people in a simiplar sitaution that Yum is much easier to administer, and you can run dual apt/yum archives during the changeover. It hadnles a lot more things automatically, and apatenyl its dependency handling is better. - Steve