On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:40:12AM -0400, Michael Long wrote: mlong> I have yet another question...when rebuilding the source rpm I get an mlong> error saying that I need the expat-devel libraries. My distribution mlong> either doesn't come with them or they are part of another package and I mlong> am not seeing it. If I download and rebuild the source rpm package for mlong> expat-devel from rpmfind.net what is the risk that it will break mlong> something on my system. Do you have an expat package? Most likely then the expat-devel stuff is in the expat package. List it to see if there are any include files: rpm -ql expat | grep include Or see if any other package mentions "expat": rpm -qa | grep expat If SuSE doesn't have any expat packages available at all, then rebuilding one probably won't hurt. -- 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