Hi all, I have a problem :). On my CentOS workstation, I had glib2-2.4.7-1 installed. This is the last version which is provided by the CentOS distribution However, I need to install a software which requires an higher glib2 version so : I took the source of glib2-2.8.4-1 on the gtk+ web site and creates the rpm installation file with "chkinstall" I obtained the glib2-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm file Then I execute yum to update the glib2 package : yum localupdate glib2-2.8.4-1.i386.rpm And know, I have a lot of problems. Surely because some library files where overwritten with the newer version files (Right or wrong ?).... Is there a way to recover the problem ? (Now, I can't launch a terminal under gnome) Well, I have broken the distribution and I feel that I will have to reinstall it. For the next time that I will try to update a package manually : Is there a safe way to update manually the glib2 library without crashing all the distribution ? Or is there a way to install the latest version of glib2 in order to have the two libraries versions installed (glib2-2.4.7-1 and glib2-2.8.4-1)? or something else ????? Thank you for your answers, Jean LEE