Ok. I'm REALLY confused as to why 9-10 src packages compile just fine for me. I just downloaded lyx-1.3.2's src to see if I could get it to compile...here are the end results.. ---snip rest of build process--- This package will be built according to these values: 1 - Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.5.2 ] 2 - Name: [ lyx ] 3 - Version: [ 1.3.2 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ Applications/System ] 7 - Architecture: [ i686 ] 8 - Source location: [ lyx-1.3.2 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Provides: [ lyx ] Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: ************************************** **** RPM package creation selected *** ************************************** Building RPM package...OK Installing RPM package...OK Erasing temporary files...OK Deleting doc-pak directory...OK Deleting temp dir...OK ********************************************************************** Done. The new package has been installed and saved to /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i686/lyx-1.3.2-1.i686.rpm You can remove it from your system anytime using: rpm -e lyx-1.3.2-1 ********************************************************************** zeus:/tmp/decompress/lyx-1.3.2 # ---- And I just started the program. It appears to run fine. I firmly believe that people do not install dependency correctly and not setup their environments correctly. I did nothing special to get this to work..I simply type "./configure && make && checkinstall" and well..it worked. These are the GCC packages I have installed ..just for reference. 8:48AM ben@zeus:~/ > rpm -qa | grep gcc gcc-c++-3.3-43 libgcc-3.3-43 gcc-java-3.3-43 gcc-info-3.3-43 gcc-g77-3.3-43 gcc-3.3-43 Hope you figure out the issue. Because I had none and I have no special packages installed other then the updated GCC packages which aren't the pre-releases that are on the CD's...new packages were available after 8.2's release and I've been using them since. Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.