installed the complete gnome package with my redhat 7.1 install and now i cannot find linuxconfig gnome games and a host of other things need help!!!!

When you say linuxconfig, I assume you mean "linuxconf". I don't have 7.1, but it appears to be absent in 7.3 and 8.0. You may have to download it from somewhere to use it on your system. I think Redhat decided to go a different way with regards to configuring a Linux system, such as all of their "redhat-config-" utilities. Just because you chose "Gnome" in the installer doesn't necessarily mean you installed all of Gnome. Did you go through and check everything underneath it? To see if gnome-games is installed, do this: # rpm -q gnome-games It should return the name of the package, including a version number. If it says "package gnome-games is not installed", it's not installed. To make sure you get everything you want installed, choose to install everything during the installation (at the bottom of the package grouping list), assuming you have the disk space for it. Good luck.