I think I've found the easiest answer, that is to use the dialogue box when updating, at least it looks to me much less scary than tackling the command line stuff.

having managed to get balsa to take incoming Emails as well as sending, (I've got KDE to work for Emails), I then tried to get Pan to work, but both it and Balsa seem to have terrible 'Authentication' problems lots of error messages and then crashing. This is probably something I've done, but as I have no idea what I'm doing I can't tell. Pan won't work, according to the log, as I can't log on to BTinternet news, KDE Email is also reporting 'bad log' with BT, I re-typed all my passwords so I don't think its that so it must be something I've done when I installed and attempted to configure it. Coping with this, (Linux), is getting to be more of a full time job than a simple change to a reliable system, still it fills the days, and the nights, and all the time when I should be doing something else, perhaps I should get some Debian Disks, then the learning process involved in getting it installed and configured might enable me to work it when I've got it in!

John Seago