Please help Yes I have read the FAQ and done every thing in it. I'm almost there the error is is int the plugins. My system Intel hardware (pentium) Linux Kernel 2.0.35 (Red Hat 5.1 on Intel hardware) Qt 1.42 egcs 1.1.1 python 1.5.1 micro 2.3.3 KDELibs 1.1 corba source from 2/15/99 koffice source from 2/15/99 This seems strange the koffice.h file is in /lib/kofficecore/ and the makefile seems to have that directory in its include path so I don't know why it can't find it. Making all in pics make[4]: Entering directory `/downloaded/koffice/plugins/calc/pics' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/downloaded/koffice/plugins/calc/pics' make[4]: Entering directory `/downloaded/koffice/plugins/calc' rm -f kspread.h rm -f kspread.cc /usr/local/bin/idl --query-server-for-narrow --relative-paths -I/opt/kde/include/idl ../../kspread/kspread.idl ../../kspread/kspread.idl:5: koffice.idl: No such file or directory ../../kspread/kspread.idl:57: scoped name 'KOffice::View' not defined make[4]: *** [kspread.h] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/downloaded/koffice/plugins/calc' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/downloaded/koffice/plugins/calc' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloaded/koffice/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/downloaded/koffice' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2