SuSE has some 'nasty' habits. One of them is lumping together different packages. For example readline-2.1 is packaged together with bash-2.01.1. It took me some time to find this out. The question now is if you want to install readline-2.2 how do you go about uninstalling readline-2.1, can yast or rpm do it? Further how can I get a more recent, preferably RPM version, of f2c. The f2c version packaged in RedHat 5.1 comfortably handels FORTRAN90. The version packaged in SuSE 5.2 does not! So I would like to try a more recent version. It would be very nice if SuSE, just like RedHat, had a contrib directory on the server where people could place contributed RPM's. Now we have to wait till SuSE packages something in the distribution or, in most cases, compile the sources ourselves. Another irritating habit is the "DOS naming" convention of the RPM's. You cannot immediately see which version is available and have to do some extra work. Alexander ------------------------------------- Alexander Volovics Dept of Methodology & Statistics Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL ------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e