Output from $ ls -dsn /tmp drwxrwxrwt 7 0 0 2048 Aug 17 20:39 /tmp/ As far as the StarOffice Installer, I don't know. I just grabbed SO5.1 from their site and installed it in my home directory. You could install it in /usr/local by using the /net option to ./setup. At least, something like that has worked in the past. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!