Before diving into my particular question, I want to say that planet CCRMA is great! the documentation is superb - - Just wondering if there is a quick, easy answer for this - the problem is that after installing cmucl from planet CCRMA using apt-get, it doesn't run: ~ ~ ~ root@dhcp-25-2 root]# lisp Could not open file "/usr/lib/cmucl/lisp.core". Maybe you should run "update-alternatives --config cmucl-core" as root? open: No such file or directory [root@dhcp-25-2 root]# ~ ~ ~ [root@dhcp-25-2 root]# rpm -qa | grep cmucl cmucl-3.1.4-1 [root@dhcp-25-2 root]# rpm -qi cmucl Name : cmucl Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.1.4 Vendor: (none) Release : 1 Build Date: Fri 20 Dec 2002 04:01:30 PM EST Install date: Sat 15 Feb 2003 09:06:10 PM EST Build Host: nando.stanford.edu Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: cmucl-3.1.4-1.src.rpm Size : 944001 License: see /usr/share/doc/cmucl/copyright Signature : (none) Packager : Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando(a)ccrma.stanford.edu> URL : ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cmucl Summary : The CMUCL lisp compiler and development system. Description : CMUCL is a free implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard (http://www.cons.org/cmucl/) This is the basis package for CMUCL. It contains the base image with the compiler, PCL (CLOS), and the tty based debugger. ~ ~ ~ Best Regards Larry Troxler