On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 13:08 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > Instead of wrecking systems with random symlinks trying to meet > compatible versions of things, why not do "yum provides filename" and > see if it is available to you. > > yum list "compat*" yeilds several packages that might be what you're > looking for. You learn something every day. I had never used that command. Thanks. That yielded compat-libstdc++-296.i386. Is that something you can install along side the other compat-libstdc++- X versions without any harm to the system? Also, and I know this may be headed into "best practices territory" what is the preferred method? To install libraries you don't need because someone hard-coded a reference to a library or to just do the symlink. That's not meant to be rhetorical or flippant. I really am curious and not sure which approach is best practice. Thanks for the tip either way, though. Preston