hey all Well, I'm connected. really not all that hard, but it sure took me long enough. Ok. I have xfree86 3.3.3.1 on a disk someplace, but they're tar.gz files (those nicknamed tarballs?) can I "alien"those things? also, I have the pine source package, plus the other pine package (whose name I can't remember) I installed those using dpkg-i, which means that the source is just sitting there. should I remove the packages and go about it a different way? thanks -t