On Sunday 26 May 2002 18:43, John Lamb wrote: - Start YaST->Install Software, - - Search for gimp and include package descriptions. Make sure you have - gimp-devel - and - gtk-devel - installed - That ought to sort out any gimptool problems. It worked for me. Nice to hear from you again John. YES <LOL>. That did it for gimptool. However, I still got the PDF and HTML package errors: checking for dvips... no configure: WARNING: PostScript documentation cannot be regenerated! checking for db2pdf... no configure: WARNING: PDF user's guide cannot be regenerated! checking for dvipdf... /usr/bin/dvipdf checking for db2ps... no configure: WARNING: PostScript user's guide cannot be regenerated! checking for db2html... no configure: WARNING: HTML user's guide cannot be regenerated! Will this affect the "make" and "make install"?? I assume that this will only affect the user guide, but it would still be nice to have it. Otherwise I will be just as blind (or more) than I have been so far 8-) - A similar process often works for other missing packages where you know - the name only of one executable, e.g. db2ps. However, a lot of the SuSE - rpms contain a collection of executables and don't list all in the - package description. In that case, you may be able to search with - System->Configuration->KPackage or hunt through the packages on the - CD-ROM using - # rpm -qpi --provides *.rpm | less - - *The package for db2pdf is called docbook-toys.* Two problems here: 1) I can't figure out how to get a pipe "|" on my Danish keyboard. Any Danes on the list that can help me out here? 2) docbook-toys isn't listed under YAST 2 with SuSE 7.3 Pro. - - Perhaps someone else can suggest a better way of searching for packages. - - Unfortunately, hunting for packages is an inevitable consequence of - trying to compile a package yourself. If you're going to do this more - often, it's wise to have lots of *-devel packages installed. These - typically contain the *.h files needed to use libraries you want to link - against. Thanks for the advice. Hopefuly I won't have to do so much of that. Cheers, Brian