Greetings! It seems like I have had this problem in the past, but I don't think I have ever solved it. I am trying to install a library .rpm file. "rpm --install=.rpm" returns * is already installed.* which then leads me to type ... "rpm --erase=.rpm" which returns * is not installed on this system* This wouldn't be all that big of a deal except that I recently fresh installed RH8 on my main system, and I really need these libraries for Xine. My Enterprise episode collection is going unwatched and they are lonely.... ;) Rundown: RH 8.0 fresh install on Athlon very few (if any, I forget) non-RH supplied packages or tars installed yet (getting xine working again is one of my first projects.) Thanks!! Kyle Faber PS. I realize that apt-get will probably be suggested as a solution to this problem. Debian is installed on a different machine, the machine I can break. This machine is where I try to keep things stable (since I sometimes think I know what I am doing when it comes to RH, not Debian) so thanks anyway ; )