Hello, I am using quantian *0.7.9.2 *live dvd and i am a total newbie to linux and to the mailing lists. I am really unable to use ginac. Firstly, locate ginac-config doesnt give any results. whereas locate ginac gives: *locate: warning: database `/var/cache/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/lib/libginac-1.3.so.2 /usr/lib/libginac-1.3.so.2.1.0 /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/copyright /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/ginac-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/copyright /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/libginac1.3c2a/README /usr/share/menu/ginac-tools /usr/share/pixmaps/ginac.xpm /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/ginac-tools.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.md5sums /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/libginac1.3c2a.shlibs *Guys, please help me out here. How do i link ginac to my C++ code using g++? Thanks a lot for going through this mail with regards, aravind