Philip S Tellis [Wed Sep 19, 2001 at 12:33:59PM +0530]: Try using checkinstall. What it does is that once you have installed checkinstall, whenever you build a package from a tarball what you need to do is do a ./configure checkinstall make checkinstall make install (or checkinstall setup or whatever) it will build the rpm (or .deb or slackware ; this is user configurable.) package and install it as an rpm thus also updating your rpm database. A sleek extra is that you now have a readymade .rpm or .deb that you can install directly on another machine if you want to. reagrds, hth, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Mumbai, India.