The os is Fedora 7 installed from the live cd. That may have brought me up short on a -develop file. I thought that I had picked up everything from the web. I didn't know to put the path specification in yum whatprovides. If the wildcard method works it would solve many questions. TNWestTex -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list