Hi All, doing a centos install - good news: most of the missing dependecies on a clean install can be added by enabling centosplus in the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo sudo vim CentOS-Base.repo .... name=centosplus ... enabled=1 other news: libssl.so.5, libcrypto.so.5, and libwrap.so.0 are still MIA. I installed the openssl from the dries repository cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ sudo wget http://soundlinuxtraining.com/portal/file.php/1/misc/dries.repo sudo rpm --import http://dries.studentenweb.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt however that didn't seem to finish the job. if anyone has any clues on those three packages it would be great, looking forward to reporting back with a completed effort. Anson ps Gracias to Liblime & Josh for the support on the mIRC channel -- Rock On!