On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:51:47 -0600 (CST), you wrote: >Oh you mean - install some RPM built for SUSE 8.0 on FC3? er, yes - I thought you could do that. Otherwise Linux is worse than Windoze DLL hell >So, the safest thing is to use RPMs built for your distribution. so where do I find the right stuff for FC2? The up2date process points me to RHN, which appears to be utterly irrelevant to Fedora. This all started when I tried to play an MP3 file, and found XMMS had been "nobbled". 6 months ago on FC1 I did indeed download an RPM off the web and install it, and it worked. Can't remember how I did it. Perhaps I'll give up and go back to stinky old XP. :-)