Dear friends, If you install software directly from a tarball, rpm will not be aware of the installation. How can rpm be made aware of it? Is rpm --rebuilddb supposed to always fix the problem? What if it does not? Or should I always try to turn the tarball into an rpm file? How to do this? Thank you! Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/