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I continue to be less than impressed by RPMs. Every time I try one I get version conflicts with other software.

Agreed, I always use RPMs because they help me to keep my systems in a reversible state. BUT, I never install binary RPMs that are not taylored to the Distro-Version that I am running (Try to install RH-7.2 packages on a RH-7.0). I may take source RPMs from other distributions as a starting point for my own tweaks, but I NEVER install 'foreign' RPMs. Attached you'll find a replacement for the setup.py script allowing to build a single binary and source RPM for Numeric + subpackages. The README.RPM for a normal user would be something like: (1) unpack python-numeric-XXX.YY.Z.tar.gz (2) cd python-numeric-XXX.YY.Z (3) python setup.py bdist_rpm This will build a binary and source RPM adapted to YOUR system (even yours, Paul, with your non-standard Python location) in the subdirectory dist (to be created automatically) (4) install with rpm -Uvh python-numeric-XXX.YY.Z-1.i?86.rpm You can always uninstall with rpm -e python-numeric. IMHO, this is a better way than trying to distibute binary RPMs. It happens that my favorite distribution is not on JH's list :-( But also, http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/81/gaming-edition , the favorite toy of 11 years old whizkids, doing pygame-NumPy programming and who are certainly future students of astronomy. If you want to test the script: (1) replace the old setup.py with mine (2) rename Lib/Numeric.py to Lib/__init__.py (Numeric will become a real Python package). (3) python setup.py bdist (4) and install the RPM Caveats: (1) renaming Numeric to python-numeric has as consequence that the header files go into .../include/python2.1/python-numeric instead of .../include/python2.1/Numeric. Personally I don't like it (being author of a package that builds on Numeric). (I think this can be fixed, if needed). (2) I tried to acknowledge Paul Dubois' contributions in a long_description (the subpackages do not build to separate packages anymore). (3) The setup.py script shows how to add documentation to an RPM (requires to work around a bug in distutils). Personnally, I think that HTML and PDF documentation should also be added. In the current state of distutils this requires inclusion of the documentation in the python-numeric-XXX.YY.Z.tar.gz. Gerard --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/