Hi Austin Many thanks for your advice which is appreciated. I tried that and most of the rpm's cried about dependencies, I should point out my fedora/applications is probably installed badly, I have red carpet installed which is good for newbies like me however red carpet wants to un-install lots of stuff due to what it says are conflicts, which is strange as everything seems to work fine. I did find some server details to add to my yum.conf file now that looked very promising but that failed to due to a conflict with I think a help file?!! I reckon I'm going to have to un-install KDE 2.1 and then re-install 3.2 which is a pain plus 7 months of usage/customisation down the drain. Like most newbies I have made the mistake of installing programs rather than upgrading or freshening an example is I have Evolution installed from Red Hat 9 as I didn't know what I was doing I installed Evolution 1.4 now I think I have two versions of Evolution installed and am scared to un-install in case I loose anything. On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:43, Austin Isler wrote: > I downloaded all the files to a temp directory, then I used the command > rpm -Uvh <insert filenames here> be sure to use the * wildcard so you > don't have to type all the filenames. > example: kde*.rpm qt*.rpm > > Austin -- Regards Peter Cannon peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."