As and answer to one of the questions - about specifying local yum repositories, I have the following in my /etc/yum.conf ############### [local] name=Local RPMS baseurl=file:///software/yum-local-rep ############### The rpms are in /software/yum-local-rep/i386, aAnd I create the yum header info as: cd /software/yum-local-rep yum-arch . Satish
