Hello again, Sorry about the previous message I now know that the red hat installation is missing the python-devel rpm which supplies the config directory. However I cannot find anywhere to download it from. The following web site which previously did supply this rpm has just last month stopped doing so :( http://andrich.net/cgi-bin/inspect.py?file=/var/www/virtualdomains /andrich/www/python/files/python-devel-1.5.2-2.i386.rpm Does anyone know of a web-site where I can download it from? Thank you for your patience. :) kate johnston