SuSE gurus (Tara Andrews, Ben Rosenberg et al): At first, I was quite pissed because you told me I had to log in as root or sux, when I had clearly said "I'm doing all as root!" [So I honestly thought.] Though I had not said it, I was doing all within KDE, so not running X couldn't possibly apply. In the process, I learned a curious lesson. I use Midnight Commander extensively, Konsole not so much. One of the neat things both have is that, by clicking on File, you're offered five choices, two of which are Root Console and Root Midnight Commander; both require that you enter the root password to access the application. I had **assumed** that by entering the root password, I was working as full root. I now know better. So, as normal user, I applied for Root Console and did there all the work for the mozilla installation, until I came to the scratching halt of errors and denial of authorization. Honestly, I was flabbergasted. Cooling the head overnight, I logged in *as root* and went to issue the installation command. All went without a hitch! Moral: working in Root Console as root is not the same thing as working as "real" root. Oh, vey... -- Regards, gr, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast. P.S.: This message was sent yesterday (Tuesday), but somehow was not delivered by the ISP.