I'm not sure if this is Mandrake specific, but I've never had this problem before using 8.0, so hopefully someone will know what's going on. Whenever I try to compile several programs (including a simple gnome app that I wrote as part of a tutorial), during the compile I get this error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [gnomewin] Error 1 As I said before, this also happens when I'm trying to compile something that *should* work... If anyone has some suggestions, I'd *really* appreciate it! Thanks, Russell A Hoffman