I make directories in /tmp called base, apps and dev. I then download each set of rpms into their directories. I install base then dev then apps. You should use Yast1 to install them..it takes care of running system updates that you may not know how to do. It's a good tool for this. You can go into yast1 as root then into Package Management. You should then go into Install packages. You will see a blue dialog box in the top left corner..you should just hit enter twice until the blue dialog box moves to the right and then you can type the path to the rpms..such as /tmp/base. It will enter this directory and you can use the arrow keys to navigate then use the space bar to tag the rpm's for install. It's pretty simple and once you do it a couple times it will become old hat. I always esc out to the beginning after each group of rpm's are installed so that all the update scripts run then I install the next group. I do this because I'm paranoid that something might get screwed up..it's served me well. Both KDE2 and Gnome run very well. :) Cheers, * Scott Anderson (sanderson@bonddesk.com) [011206 06:37]: ->Hi all, -> ->I downloaded the Gnome update RPMs for 7.2 from suse.com in order to run ->Evolution 1.0. There was a reference to using YAST to load them, but no ->details. -> ->Loading them directly via rpm -Uvh at the command line resulted in the ->following: ->1) The Sawfish capplet could not connect to the control center. ->2) Various applets (the taskbar, a clock, etc.) showed up as tiny ->footprint icons in the panels, even if I removed/readded them. ->3) right-click panel->Panel->Global Preferences did nothing at all. ->4) All of my Sawfish prefs were lost. -> ->I had to completely remove all Gnome-related packages and reinstall them ->from the CD in order to get my system working again. -> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -AE