And there I was, thinking there was something wrong with my recently-upgraded machine! Being a lazy dev, I just added a cron job to apt-get update on the hour... So I get hourly checks, as per the original thread, but this isn't exactly friendly for the average user ): -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Djikstra.