thanks for your help guyswhat I spent today doin is reloading my old distribution (among other things) but now I am at a loss.... how do I get gnucash. I tried to apt-get it but that was a no go. would someone share with me their sources.list as mine is three years old? (yes.... I still have my /home) another thing..... kmail isn't working. I type it into the command line and nothing happens. even the CPU activity monitor shows that nothing is happening. ps~ it probably is a good thing that apt-get wasn't working seeing as that is what broke it in the first place --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss