I got it to work! It was going through preferences that did it, I think it was changing the scratch disk location that solved it. YAHOO! To answer your question, I am on Ubuntu Studio 32bit [img]http://4xeyng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1phIPzmQabSblf5tWzPwwd242idx-ixBoT3zb98qVog4Ix3A9l9nmdUOAWajPWeoY0y--5mXLcJF30u0MB5o2vS_2yJjOD1Up4/Screenshot.png?psid=1[/img] I am very happy - my advice is to pursue getting V5 to work before attempting later versions .