Dworf your instructions worked great. Thank you for taking your time to post them. EDIT: To Winde: I'm unsure if meant what "cd ../../../" did. If this is what you mean, it simply takes you up three directories. If you where in : "cd kopete-0.9.2/kopete/protocols/msn" it takes you to "cd kopete-0.9.2" where you would need to be to configure.