This is for OldSarge........... Ok, here's what I did to install Kmymoney on 9.3 (should be exactly the same on 9.2) 1) Downloaded the kmymoney....... ......tar.bz2 file from sourceforge.net 2) cd to /usr/local (this is where I install all tar files that I get. 3) Since the filename ends in .bz2 I know that it is a bzip file, and this requires one of the *three* possible options for tar... the 'j' option tar.gz === the 'z' option just .tar == neither 'j' nor 'z' 4) I downloaded the .tar.bz2 file to /ftparea which is where I download everything. So my command to untar is: tar xjvf /ftparea/mymoney2-0.7.2.tar.bz2 5) cd into the newly created /usr/local/kmymoney2-0.7.2 directory 6) Looking around, I see a configure command so I issue it: ./configure It does a lot of checking and completes with the message: Good - your configure finished. Start make now If you got an error message from the ./configure, then you are probably missing something. 7) I then issue the make command. make This compiles a whole bunch of stuff and completes without error. 8) Then I ran: make install which also completed without error. I should now have an installed version of kmymoney on my 9.3 system. 9) But where is it? Since it is a kde program, it is probably in /opt/kde3/bin ls /opt/kde3/bin/kmy* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-06-15 20:07 /opt/kde3/bin/kmymoney -> ./kmymoney2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5264508 2005-06-15 19:37 /opt/kde3/bin/kmymoney2 Amazing!! I did not find an entry in the kde START set, but there might be one. In any event, I can make an icon for it on the desktop. Now this is *all* it took. No big deal assuming you have all the pieces on your system and that's not hard to do. This is a very stock 9.3 system but I do have a lot of things loaded on it. C compiler for one. And..... if any of the above steps had failed, it would in NO WAY be the fault of SuSE. They didn't write the program, or provide it to me. The TAR command was the easiest part of the whole deal but the above is how you deal with NINETY-FIVE PERCENT of tar files. (my estimate) Enjoy....