On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:56, chris clarke wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > Sorry to bug you with what I'm sure is a newbie question but what is > the difference between these two files? > > lame-3.93.1-0.fdr.8.0.94 > lame-3.93.1-0.lvn.8.1 Neither appear to be files, but rather version of a lame rpm. (The rpm file would be as above, with ".rpm" at the end). The "fdr" and "lvn" are likely to be related to who packaged/provided the rpms (Fedora/Livna). Both are for version 3.93-1 of lame. The last numerical part may be the packager's version of that rpm. Cheers, Ben