Hi, While SuSE provides an alternative rpm program that can handle version 4 RPMs, I cannot not find a new SuSE rpm2cpio program that can handle them. As you may guess, I am trying to use alien to convert an RPM to a TAR archive. Any suggestions, SuSE? Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life, avi@CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux!