Putty has been ported to Linux. While most of us prefer the command line ssh, someone coming over from Windows may prefer the GUI options offered by putty. Joe, what you need to do to solve your problem is to install the development libraries. You should be able to do this from SuSE's package manager. Check the readme file included in the putty source to see what needs to be installed before you can build putty. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned