I wrote. > You simply need to download this package using wget like this. > wget > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-9.0/slackware/k/kernel-source-2.4.20-noarch5.tgz > then type installpkg kernel-source-2.4.20-noarch5.tgz and try again. Oops, looking again at your error, I'm not sure my answer is correct. Doing that helped me with a similar error message, but I'm not sure it's the same. Worth trying though. I don't know if you need root privilages to access that file, if all else fails try as root if you're not already. Justin