Sorry i should've said. all you needed was the first one.
bring up a terminal session, "su -" to root and run "rpm -Uvh /path/torpm.rpm"
It hopefully will install correctly, then as a nomal user again, in a shell typing "gaim" will launch the program.
Ewan
tamqfl1-ar9-4-63-109-201:/home/doc/Mail/SuSE/new # rpm -Uvh /home/doc/Mail/SuSE/new/gaim-0.59-SuSE.jeo.1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libart_lgpl.so.2 is needed by gaim-0.59-SuSE.jeo.1 libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 is needed by gaim-0.59-SuSE.jeo.1 libgnome.so.32 is needed by gaim-0.59-SuSE.jeo.1 libgnomesupport.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.59-SuSE.jeo.1 libgnomeui.so.32 is needed by gaim-0.59-SuSE.jeo.1 I presume that I need to add these manually through YaST2? Yes? Thanks! doc -- "And God said, let there be light ... "