Hi Chad, I finally got down to installing K3b and at this point I'm at ./configure, once I execute this command everything seems to be going alright until this process looks for the Qt3 libraries and headers. According to the log this process generated Qt3 libraries and headers couldn't be located. Now thinking I might need to install that package to get things going again, I looked at rhn,fresh rpm's and livna.org for this pakage with no luck. I also looked at the rpm install logs to see if it had been installed with no luck also. The other required packages were installed without any issues or errors. at the time I was signed in on my root account. the only variation was I couldn't get gunzip to open the file so I went to the folder that contained K3b and right clicked on that file and selected "Extract To" which successfully completed. Also I need to mention that this was being done on gnome. thanks again for your help and patience. If you could provide me some background to qt3 or even a link to find it so I can install it that would be great. ===== Merrill A. Butterman Jr. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html