Hi, Ok heres what happened me upon installing jdk1.1.5.rpm in the wee ours of last night. First of all Ive got the latest glibc libs (1)glibc-2.0.7-13 (2)glibc-devel-2.0.7-13 Now when I go to run java/javac It dont core-dump it complains that it cant find/link to the shared library libXpm.so.4.9 which btw resides in /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib directory which is also referenced in my /etc/ld.so.conf file Ok I can solve this problem by setting up my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to reference /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib, This gets rid of the initial prob bu introduces another shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories .................... ................... but eventually spits out the java/javac help info Now also with my LD_LIBRARY_PATH set if I go an vi a file I get the following error Unable to open swap file, recovery impossible No tags file upon start up just above the command line, but it then goes away upon insert mode. now I can solve these problems ie vi and the getwd ones by unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but then java/javac dont work very well ;) ---------------- please note, Im doing all this in text teminal, not X. Thanks in advance gearoid