Hi. I'm was the doc writer for kpsk...what you are reporting does not sound familiar at all. Since the RPMs were compiled for Red Hat and Mandrake, I'm not sure how they install w/SuSE -- that could be one source of problems. You should maybe try building the program from the sources that are available on Sourceforge. (If you can roll an RPM for SuSE, I could post it to the Sourceforge kpsk web pages for distribution.
The issues described are not unusal or unexpected. In fact, if you wrote the docs, you should reall that in the prerequisites section "kde" is clearly listed. In reality, kdelibs contains the kde-related files needed. I can't explain the OpenSSH requirements, however I would suggest adding that req to the requirements section of the documentation since it is clearly required. I may download the package myself and have a look at the spec file, but I can say for certain OpenSSH must be listed there since the install is looking for it. SuSE deals with RH packages pretty well, but RH packages don't always do things the "SuSE way" relative to scripts and file locations. As for rolling one's own, I wouldn't suggest that here as more packages would need to be installed. Most likely openssh-devel and kdelibs-devel, possibly others. -- John LeMay kc2kth Senior Technical Manager NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions