I found this on the Borland site. The suggestion to use the -m option worked fine and allowed me to install Kylix as root. http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,26890,00.html Paul Lowman Lowman Consulting Ltd. Embedded Systems & Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/