Howdy, everyone: In the true spirit of (now!) "trying to do everything right", I've decided I should stop ignoring warnings and error messages :-) I have obtained (from ftp.suse.com) the latest XFree 4.2.0 stuff, and followed the easy installation-instructions *to the letter* (another first for me :-) ). Unfortunately, I hit a bump during Sax2; does anyone have suggestions for what action I should take: root@oilslick:/home/gordonp/sax2 > ls -al total 1155 drwxr-xr-x 2 gordonp users 113 Feb 27 14:41 . drwxr-xr-x 41 gordonp users 2030 Feb 27 13:47 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 gordonp users 1162255 Feb 27 2002 sax2-4.3-350.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 gordonp users 12291 Feb 27 2002 saxident-1.1-103.i386.rpm root@oilslick:/home/gordonp/sax2 > rpm --nodeps --force -Uhv *.rpm sax2 ################################################## cannot remove /var/opt/sax - directory not empty cannot remove /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/sysp/maps - directory not empty cannot remove /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/sysp - directory not empty cannot remove /usr/X11R6/lib/sax - directory not empty saxident ################################################## (apologies for my mailer doing the word-wrap thing...) -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng., Member IEEE Technical University of B.C. - Research Lab Engineer mailto:gordon.pritchard@techbc.ca direct phone: 604-586-6186