Installing Mercurial from source is tricky, so i would like the equivalent of an rpm that includes all dependencies, even a version of Python. Incidentally, it turned tou that the version of pkg-config to use for an initial install is 0.22. The version I initially downloaded, 0.26, is evidentally intended as an upgrade. 0.22 works fine. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities