On 19/05/2006, at 9:46 PM, Justin Denick wrote: > rpm -Uvh path-to-somepkg.rpm > urpmi somepkg > apt-get intstall somepkg > emerge somepkg > > Do something, because Kpackage is just not cutting it for you. Good advice. I did that back on day one. It seemed that the Kpackage problem is a symptom of something else and that's what I'm trying to learn about. I'll take Kevin's advice and ask the BSD list for help with the setup. malcolm ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.