As a linux newbie, I like the ease with which I can install and delete packages with Redhat Package Manager (on a machine for which I have root privilege). The installation/Upgrade HOWTO is (explicitly) not for RPM installation. The HOWTO discusses some security features that I would like to impliment (like "installing as a User", "starting as Root", and "running as Nobody"). I'd like to follow those suggestions, but have to use the Zope-2.1.2.ppc.rpm that I created from a src.rpm . Problem is... you must install and delete RPMs as root, so I can't take the good security advise above. So, I've decided to try dumping the rpms and installing from src (no LinuxPPC binary that I can find). If anyone has a suggestion for using the rpm and achieving the goals of the HOWTO, I'm open to suggestions. Trying to follow the suggestions in the HOWTO, I have followed them to the letter (installing as a user) but have Permission Denied when I even try to gunzip the .tgz source file. Assuming I have a permission problem here. I have the directories set up exactly as shown in the HOWTO: owner group nobody myusername I have done an su to my username from root before attempting the gunzip. Does "nobody" have to belong to group "myusername"? I looked at /etc/group with vigr, but nowhere can I find a file telling me what the lines in /etc/group mean (how to edit them). At this point, I don't even know if it is necessary. I know this has to be kindergarten stuff here, but I've never worked with anything where the owner was different from the group (though after reading the HOWTO I can see how it would be useful). If anyone can remember what it was like to be this ignorant... please take pity on me. :>) Darren Addy University of Nebraska at Kearney