hi down load the the required cvs version from cvshome.org either as a tarball or rpm, if its a rpm use rpm -ivh cvs*.rpm then it will install the required files in your system try cvs from the prompt it will give you the usage style If you want to use it for some product the first create the repository (say e.g product) # mkdir -P /product/CVSROOT (Considering that u want it in the root "/" directory or u can create it anywhere u want i have taken it as say "/" ) #chmod -R 775 /product #chown cvs.cvs -R /product changing the ownership to cvs users Now go to your source directory say Product1 & import them to cvs repository for this case it is /product. # cd /Product1 #cvs -d /product import -m "New Repository for Product" Product1/. vendor_tag start_tag where vendor & start_tag is any tag you want to give , -m is for the comment to be given in the " " Product1/. mean all the file under this directory to the repository /product # chmod -R 775 /product # chown cvs.cvs -R /product thats all then access it from anywhere using cvs checkout command along with the option. there is a good frontend for cvs called wincvs to be used from win98 or nt Hope this will help you dipankar _____________________________________________________ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help