Hello, I lost my nerve on this, there were to many dependencies involved and it seemed like the rewards would be to slim and the risks much to great. I checked the compat-libstdc++ and -devel library versions from rh8 and rh9. There is a difference, my idea was to remove the 9 compatibility libs and put in the 8 ones. I would not force them, but would manually remove their dependencies until each of them removed cleanly, then put in the 8 libs and restore the previously removed 9.0 dependencies. If anyone tries this, be aware that one of the dependencies of the -devel package was gcc-c++ and i was not daring enough to continue with this. I wish IBM would revamp this project!!! Dave. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list