Would like to thank both of you above for responding to my questions. Really appreciate it.

I did get 2.4 Gnome to install. It didn't go exactly smooth. Perhaps this was due to my already using apt-get to update in the past. I had run apt-get from the KDE package center.

I kept getting an error mentioning some lib that was missimg or that I had some unstable files. Tried apt-get install Gnome update several time with the same results.

So I said what the heck, I ran Apt-get Upgrade and about 289 meg of items were d/l and I assume upgraded?

Then I went to a shell and ran apt-get install gnome and this time it d/l all gnome files and installed them.

Logged off of KDE and there Gnome was in my boot list--))))

Runs just fine, now looking forward to Gnome 2.6!--)))

I know have the best of both worlds, KDE and Gnome. I like to play and learn so know off to do more learning--))))

I wrote a lot of the above in the hopes it may help some else and thanks again to BOTH of you above!

Brian in Erie, PA