Hi there, after silently reading on this list for some months I now have a problem I can't solve with all my friends, so I'm going to ask my first question here. First I am no programmer or something like that, but just a user, so excuse me if these are quite silly questions to ya geeks :o) SuSE version is 9.1 x86-64 My first problem is the software "pybliographer" (provided with the DVDs) which gives the following output when trying to start: nist@yeeshor:~> pybliographer Willkommen zu pybliographer, Version 1.2.2 Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Frederic GOBRY Dies ist freie Software OHNE JEDE GARANTIE. Für Details, wählen Sie `warranty'. Nützliche Befehle: help für Hilfe quit zum Beenden Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/gnome/bin/pybliographer", line 153, in ? execfile (filename, user_global) File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/pybrc.py", line 5, in ? from Pyblio.TextUI import * File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/TextUI.py", line 28, in ? from Pyblio import Base, Help, Search, Types, Autoload, Fields File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/Base.py", line 31, in ? from Pyblio import Config, Open, Utils, Key, Iterator, Selection, Autoload File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/Open.py", line 24, in ? from Pyblio import Autoload, Fields, Help, Exceptions File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/Fields.py", line 24, in ? import string, types, re, string, recode, urlparse, os, gettext, time File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/recode.py", line 22, in ? import _recode ImportError: No module named _recode I googled around and found out that recode 3.6 has a bug which makes it unsuitable for pybliographer, so I tried to install from source with the provided patch applied: http://www.pybliographer.org/help/recode/view?searchterm=recode The configure from SuSEs recode sources exited because of the missing 64bit support. Same with the original gnu sources. After replacing config.sub and config.guess with newer versions from the installed (/usr/share) libtool configure succeeded. But the "make" afterwards then complained about some m4 stuff. See http://nopaste.php.cd/24184 for details. Since pybliographer did not work as intended, I tried to run bibview instead. But it core dumped with a segmentation violation in a "strcpy" right at startup. I'm a little stuck at this point and fear to handle all my bibliography manually with a plain text editor for my thesis. Any hints from your side? Help is very much appreciated! Thanks in advance, Nicole -- Das Einkommen ist die Provision, die einem der Staat fuer die Erarbeitung der Steuern zuerkennt