Just a recap. My original problem was not having several fonts after upgrading the QT/KDE combination for KDE 3.1.1 and QT 3.1.2. In additon I was having a problem building Gideon (KDevelop 3.0.0 alpha), and any applications created with that framework. I determined that the problem with the fonts resulted from the /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 from the SuSE build QT 3.1.2 RPM. You can read the Niflhel Saga here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56747 The upshot is this: Fetch the source for QT and KDE: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.1/source/qt3-3.1.2-6.src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.1/source/kdelibs3-3.1.1-28.src.rpm su - ******* rpm -i <path to rpms>/qt3-3.1.2-6.src.rpm rpm -i <path to rpms>/kdelibs3-3.1.1-28.src.rpm rpm -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/qt3.spec rpm -U --force /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/qt3-3.1.2-6.i386.rpm rpm -U --force /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/qt3-devel-3.1.2-6.i386.rpm ## YOU MUST COMPILE AND INSTALL THE QT STUFF FIRST! rpm -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/kdelibs3.spec rpm -U --force /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/kdelibs3-3.1.1-28.i386.rpm rpm -U --force /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/kdelibs3-devel-3.1.1-28.i386.rpm I actually did rpm -e --nodeps on these, but you shouldn't have to. I now have a working Gideon, working fonts, and the ability to compile my KDE apps. Now if I only had time to write the apps. :-/ This isn't really SuSE's fault. There's something very hosed in the KDE UIC support. It sould not be so tightly bound to the QT installation. STH