No sweat... you can't copy/paste into synaptic though. You can use synaptic to install aptitude, and then the fore-mentioned should work fine. _____ From: hllug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hllug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Lanoue Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:50 PM To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [hllug] Re: Application Installation John WS Hibbs wrote: Before you go looking in the menu though, run aptitude install gnomesword `aptitude search "^sword.*" -F%p` from the cli. Cut/Paste the above line to a terminal. john Thanks for all of your help, John, I truly appreciate your taking the time. I am still very confused, though. I have gone to the forums, linux.org tutorials, etc., and read your messages, and still don't understand. Attached is what I got when I copy/pasted the above script into a terminal as su. By the way, I'm running PCLinuxOS under KDE. I use the Synaptic package manager for installs and updates. beeyil P.S. See, Don, I can attach a file the first time. Bet ya didn't think I had it in me. 8-) No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1188 - Release Date: 12/17/2007 2:13 PM