I am not one as a user of SuSE 9 to lecture a user of RH8, but it seems to me that a problem that might be swept under the rug in the haste to compile scribus is the little matter of confusing the rpm database by taking an existing rpm and doing an 'make install'of the new sources from the tar ball. That probably will default to placing itself in /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib. The rpm database will not be upgraded. DEFINITELY use only an rpm to upgrade another rpm thus rpm -Uvh mynewsomething.rpm Otherwise use check install or alien or krpmbuild to get the tar ball into a format that can be handled by the rpm database. There may be ways to rebuild a corrupted rpm database. I wish I knew more on this. Remember SUSE uses the same red hat package manager as Red Hat does -- for a good reason, they invented it! bart at solozone.com
