Beats me. Why do you think I'm always up to 5 am for a week at a time on such problems? I would likely just delete them, rpm -e, one at a time. Now that I think of it: Once you have the kde-redhat kde running, you could go into the kde menu, system tools, kpackage. This will allow you to delete, I think (it's been a while since I used it), graphically, which should speed things up a whole lot. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca