I'm trying to install the current version of hugs on a red hat 7.1 system (running on VMWare 2.0.1 on top of Win 2K). I downloaded the file hugs98-Dec2001-1.i386.rpm onto the freshly-installed red hat 7.1 (no other software has been installed). It complains that libreadline.so.4 is needed. The system has the package readline-4.1-9 installed which provides libreadline.so.4.1. It appears to require exactly libreadline.so.4 (not >= 4). So, I tried uninstalling readline-4.1-9 so as to install the older package but it complained (unsurprisingly) that lots of packages rely on readline so it wouldn't erase it. I could try a --force with the erase but that seems a tad drastic. Does anyone know a workaround for this, or please tell me if I'm just doing something stupid. Thanks! Simon Handley Palo Alto, CA, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com