Hi All Well its time for my first post, I hope this is not in HTML :-) I've installed various different versions of Zope under RedHat and Debian with help from the other guys here at NIP. I think from my experience with RedHat, the important thing is NOT to overwrite the python152 install. If you follow the python2.1 install instructions, do your make, and then make ALTINSTALL it does not replace the symlink and so typing python starts python152, so all the scripts under RedHat still work :-) See the bottom of the install text in the doc directory. After installing Python2.1 you need to check that python2.1 starts, try typing python2.1 in your home directory. If it doesn't, you'll have to add a link in one of the directories in your path (eg /usr/local/lib, off the top of my head, but don't quote me) to make that happen. Then you can compile Zope 2.4 using "python2.1 w_pcgi.py" and it should all go smoothly... Well hopefully! I was surprised how many things don't work under RedHat if you just upgrade your python version :-) Oops!... Just shows how much Python is used :-) Is there a newbie tutorial covering the basics of things like tar, and installing zope... I know its not directly related to Zope but the world of *nix anc feel a little chilly for the first few hours. It soon warms up though :-) I guess good newbie documentation is the best way of getting people hooked, don't want to scare them off before they've started. I'm also working on sorting out the Instance_Home stuff in my mind, and guess that would be useful to other folks too, especially looking at the posts about upgrading to Zope 2.4 and so on... Anyway, hope that adds something rather than just repeating what everyone else is saying ;-) Chris K