Boys and Girls: I have successfully updated the kernel, initscripts and netscape, however i did it all in X (this is not the query tho since everything is just fine). I attempted to install at the command prompt as root before i did this under X, and got the following error message "cannot open [file]" This has occurred each time i have gone to install or upgrade packages (and i am definitely in the same directory as the packages). List of attempted commands: rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-31mdk.i585.rpm rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i585.rpm rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps netscape-common-4.61stable-1mdk.i585.rpm rpm -Uvh netscape-communicator-4.61stable-1mdk.i585.rpm This is not an urgent matter, i'm just curious as to WHY? Thanks everyone, Paul.