This happened to me too. If you run 'fink selfupdate' it should solve the problem ... and, actually, they have a new command, 'fink selfupdate-rsync' that works (loads and loads) better! See the fink website. Fink Commander supposedly is not compatible w/ Panther yet. Anywho, running either should solve the problem. Refs: X11 FAQ @ macosxhints (see in the 80s) http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php? s=&threadid=8704&pagenumber=3 fink (see older news for rsync info) http://fink.sourceforge.net/ Doug