After watching thoroughly the log file of GSMP and Csound i found out that the problem is that my gtk version is too old... now downloading the new version....concerning john the ripper there is sth really mysterious happening: i do the compiling pretty well,i get the john executable (i can see it it exists!!) also the other binaries but when i enter the word john or unshadow or anything else it just says: command not found...i tried it from a root console also but it s the same problem...how can that happen??? As to xine: the xine config command has some options but they dont seem to fit for seeing a movie..anyway is there any other good prog for wathcing DVDs? Again thanks....