On 06 November 2007, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale Arnaud.Gomes at ircam.fr wrote: Tue Nov 6 21:44:19 UTC 2007 <snip> >After ruling out the obvious (is /opt full?), check your logs (most >probably dmesg and/or /var/log/messages). >Now a wild guess: what file system are you using for /opt? Does it >support symlinks? JACKPOT! Your "wild guess" was *dead* on! Google is installing into /opt I'd forgotten that I have /opt as FAT32, to safely move files between NTFS and ext3. This is a dual boot, WinXP and CentOS 5 box. Thank you! I will install Picasa on my wife's box, when she's not using it. -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/