I repeat... Why is rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 soooo slow? It eventually turns out some output, but it takes the better part of a couple of minutes (very subjective, but I managed to talk to my wife about something and then type this email and it still isn't finished, so it's a reasonable amount of time.) Actually a couple of minutes is bloody generous. After waiting so long i decided to do a real test, so here it is... [rodd@localhost database]$ time rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org2 openoffice.org2-impress-1.9.77-1 openoffice.org2-core-1.9.77-1 openoffice.org2-xsltfilter-1.9.77-1 openoffice.org2-writer-1.9.77-1 openoffice.org2-graphicfilter-1.9.77-1 real 6m28.496s user 0m3.070s sys 0m0.559s [rodd@localhost database]$ Rodd