On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:38:48 -0600 "Ian Kabeary" <omega21 at gmail.com> wrote: > mkdir /opt ? > ~Ian > Well, yes. But it should be there already - and in fact it is there in Ubuntu, or at least it is on my system... $ ls -ld /opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-06 09:14 /opt If not, it would be a bug :) Peter