by the way I just noticed that there is a problem with your repository: http:/people.ubuntulinux.org/~mvo/synaptic/progress-bar/Release.gpg: Unable to connect to http: http:/people.ubuntulinux.org/~mvo/synaptic/progress-bar/Packages.gz: Unable to connect to http: that's maybe also why I've problems with changeing to your version. -- rwabel