Hi Joe, Instead of putty, there are command line options from within the shell itself. Most of the default distro installs come with ssh at least. So maybe you can try "ssh -l <your login> -h <host>" instead of using putty? Hope this helps, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Joe Kneeland Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:26 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [tclug-list] newbie trying putty Greetings, a friend suggested I turn to you for help, I'm quite new to linux (a week or so was my first install), running suse v.10 trying to get putty to install. install.txt says to run "make -f Makefile.gtk" from the unix subdirectory did so and this what returned. unfortunatly, its all greek to me;( linux:/opt/putty-0.58/unix# make -f Makefile.gtk cc -02 -Wall -Werror -g -I.././ -I../charset/ -I../windows/ -I../unix/ -I../mac -I../macosx/ `gtk- config ..cflags` -c ../be_all.c /bin/sh: gtk-config: comand not found /bin/sh: cc:comand not found make: *** {be_all.o} Error 127 I would sooo much appreciate any help Joe _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list