On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 10:29, Victor Odhner wrote: > But how does the common-library-version-compatibility issue > play out in the Linux world? I'd be interested in hearing > comments on this, because I haven't done a lot of updating > under Linux. Seems to me that doing an apt-get to install > one application, with its required libraries, might cause > a library to become incompatible with another application > already resident on the machine. That's what APT is. It checks all those dependancies between what is installed, and what is going to be installed, downloads only what you need to fulfill those dependancies and simplifies your life. It's very configurable and you can do quite a few other things with it, but that is the gist. In short, the problem you describe, is one that APT was designed to eliminate. -- Blake Barnett (bdb) Sr. Unix Administrator DevelopOnline.com office: 480-377-6816 Learning is a skill, you get better at it with practice.