admittedly, i finally gave up following the jedit thread, so i test installed it on two different f8 systems (i386 and x86_64) and it worked flawlessly both times. http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Installing_jedit rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================