fxload here was downloaded from htttp://packages.debian.org/fxload . I chose the "oldstable" version (that is, 3.1, Sarge), to make the libc as backwards compatible as possible. The stand-along binary was extracted using the command: ar p fxload_0.0.20020411-1_i386.deb data.tar.gz | tar xzf - ./sbin/fxload (for those of you with no deb packages extracter handy) The Debian patch should not be required if you just want to build the fxload binary. fxload is a stand-alone utility and needs no extra helper files. It is written in good-old C, and thus usually has good binary compatibility. (That is not to say that there shouldn't be such a utility in Fedora and in Centos. I know) Tzafrir