Hi folks: I had sent a note out last night, but I think the server hiccuped. I have created a nice and simple source RPM for compiling/building NCBI Toolkit. This RPM allows you to easily incorporate it in your RPM based cluster install. I built a spec file for NCBI and created a source RPM which you can pull down from http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/ specifically http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/NCBI-2.2.7-2.src.rpm I added in the Opteron patches as discussed on this group last year. These patches will be applied if the target is x86_64. To build this RPM into a set of binary RPMs, do the following as root user: rpmbuild --rebuild NCBI-2.2.7-2.src.rpm If you want to build for a specific target processor, use the --target option, as in rpmbuild --rebuild --target x86_64 NCBI-2.2.7-2.src.rpm Please let me know if you find any problems. One problem seen in previous RPM versions of the NCBI toolkit had to do with formatdb creating things named "(null).pal" with lots of "(null)" running around inside. Please let me know if you find such a critter. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web: http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615