On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:48:04PM -0400, Michael Long wrote: mlong> I have discovered that the files in the expat-devel package are already mlong> installed on the system so I ran rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps .... mlong> It appeared to compile with a lot of warnings about anti-aliasing. mlong> Unfortunately the warnings scrolled out of the term buffer so I don't mlong> have the exact warning. This process is very verbose and I don't know if mlong> it completed successfully or not. When I query the rpm database it still mlong> shows the old version of python. Did I miss a step? Did you install the resulting i386.rpm files from the rebuild step? They should have ended up in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886