Victor wrote: <snip> This because the precompiled packages are > prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor. > > This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . . What is an i686. i586 is the generic family of processors that the Pentium belongs to if IIRC but I didn't realize that there was another processor family beyond that. just curious as to what i686 signifies. thanks, Andy