Hi You must get gnome common and compile it, with the prefix of /usr. That will give you gnome-autogen.sh in your /usr/bin directory where slack 9 puts its gnome binaries. If you're not using slackware 9 you'll have to find out where your gnome prefix is. Every gnome library must be compiled with the correct gnome prefix. Anyway, you need to also get intltool from the gnome site and compile it as well. However, I've not gotten gnome-speech or gnome-mag to compile at all. Running the autogen.sh script on them gives me the following errors in the automake Makefile.am files: LDFLAGS is a user variable, you should not change it, use AM_LDFLAGS instead When I change the variable to AM_LDFLAGS, the resulting created Makefiles are empty. I'm running slack 9 now. I'll be trying rh9 here soon, maybe they'll compile on there. if they do then they either have rh-specific stuff in them, or slackware's automake is nonstandard. Have any other slackware or debian users gotten these to compile? I'd be interested to know if anyone on a distro other than rh has gnome-speech and gnome-mag compiled. Not sure if gnopernicus will compile or not, since without gnome-speech, I'll never find out. At 12:31 5/10/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Well, after I finally got Festival installed and working, I am trying to >build Gnopernicus so I can hopefully find out what it can really do. >Well, trying to compile the gnome-speech library got me nowhere. The last >line of the autogen.sh script says USE_GNOME2_MACROS=1 . gnome-autogen.sh >which bombs because there is no file called gnome-autogen.sh.