On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:35:04PM -0400, Terry R. Grier wrote: > How do I go about learning to install programs that are not listed via yum? If you're lucky, they're packaged in a reputable third-party yum repository -- see <http://fedoratracker.org/tracker.py?mode=pkgSearch> to search. Otherwise, there's a _lot_ to learn. Here's one place to start <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html>. (Although it's a little out of date -- software like yum solves the main problem the author has with RPM packages.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>