I have encountered this similar error many times while attempting to make KDE apps from sources on the KDE site. I admit freely I don't know much in this area. I simply follow instructions in the INSTALL file. I have got a few to work. My latest attempt was on Kdpms-0.2.5. Below are the last few lines echoed back during the make. make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/kdpms/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/kdpms' Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/po' file=./'echo de | sed 's,.*/,,`'.gmo\ && rm -f $file && msgfmt -o $file de.po /bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found make[2]: *** [de.gmo] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/kdpms/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/kdpms' Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/po' file=./'echo de | sed 's,.*/,,`'.gmo\ && rm -f $file && msgfmt -o $file de.po /bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found make[2]: *** [de.gmo] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jfrye/kdpms-0.2.5' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Any help here would be appreciated. Sys Info: S.u.S.E. 5.1, KDE 1.0, QT 1.3 TIA Jayme Frye - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e