After some patching I was able to create a GNU/Linux PowerPC RPM package for shapelib 1.2.8 (including the contrib). ftp://intevation.de/freegis/gnu-linux-ppc/updates/ Again, only tested with LinuxPPC 2000 on a G3 Powerbook. Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/