Dear All Occasionally I have tried to compile various programs which are not available as rpm's for SuSE8.1. However, it rarely meets with success due to ./configure not finding the qt libraries. The following is typical output at the end of running configure: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! I recall someone on this mailing list saying that it was essential to install all of the -devlop packages and more as per the list on http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_8_1/devel.h.... I have installed all of these and everything related to qt3 but to not avail. I have also added configure options such as --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3 etc but that also makes no difference. I'm sure there must be a very simple answer but I can't find it. Can anyone offer some explanation or hints about what I could try. Incidently I've updatee to kde3.2 or as much as is available for SuSE 8.1 on the apt website using synaptic (the kdenetwork related updates don't yet seem to be available. Thanks John Satherley