[LUNI] gpm, fetchmail and libraries

[Noesis]

Ok.  Gpm, fetchmail and libraries.  I got questions for them all. ;)

I guess I'll start with the most important.. Libaries..
I go to install a program and get some surprising dependencies...
libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0), (2.1), (2.2),
libX11.so.6
libc.so.6
libdl.so.2
 etc. etc.

However, I have these! I mean, I just did a Slackware 8 Expert install
and installed everything on the list.  Plus, I'm in X right now (regarding
the X libs).  What do you guys think is configured incorrectly?


Fetchmail...
Whenever I run fetchmail it previews my new messages and rings
a bell for each message, even when the silent switch is given.
Any ideas?


gpm...
gpm is not working correctly.  It says it starts at startup,
however it does not work.  I ran 'gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2' 
to try to start it manually, but no cigar.  Any ideas?


Oh, and another thing. I had to reinstall, and when I restored
my backed up files.. a lot of them are shortend with a ~.. for
example: install-sendmail.tar was called...instal~1.tar, etc. 
Strange.  Any ideas?  ;)


Sorry for all the questions.  These have been building for some
time, the ~ put me over the edge to ask them.  I have been
searching around for answers for quite some time.  I'm a 
self tought Unix user, so I have some loop holes in my learning
that I'm trying to fill in.  


Thanks a lot! 

Take it easy and happy holiday's!

	-Noesis