Folks: Redid packaging of the NCBI toolkit RPMs. The binaries are better captured by the newer system, and the sizes are somewhat larger. Packages built for P4 (labeled i686), Opteron (x86_64), Athlon, and source (src). The packages are located at http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/ncbi/ and labeled 2.2.8-1 . The x86_64 was built under Fedora Core for AMD64, working on getting a SUSE load on the machine as well. The athlon and p4 packages were built under RH9.0. If you try to install a binary and it fails to work (crashes and dumps core), pull the source and run (as root) rpmbuild --rebuild NCBI-2.2.8-1.src.rpm on your machine. It will eventually generate the RPM barring compilation/permissions problems. You might need to do this if you are using a pre-RedHat 9.0 machine (the NPTL issue). Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615