In order to eliminate this confusion, I'd just use Alien to convert .rpm's to .tgz's and then install those. Rick Rosinski wrote on 7/17/00 10:32 pm: Now that I have had my fun with tarballs, ./configure, make , make install ever since I started using Linux (back in 1997), I want to move over to RPM to save some time and frustration with management of libs, etc. So, I began with Glade. The first dependency that the install failed was ld-linux.so.2. I ran the locate command (slackware), and found that it was in the /lib directory. I don't want to have to download all of the required rpms and install them if most of them may be on my system already. Of course, I could always do rpm --force . This would defeat the purpose of using rpms in the first place. What would be the best way to go about editing the rpm database so that it knows what files are where (for those files that I do already have?). Is there a utility that does this? Do I have to do it manually (if I do, how?). Thanks in advance. Rick R. -- Rick Rosinski http://rickrosinski.com rick@rickrosinski.com _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss