Chadley Wilson said: > It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied By default up2date and yum use http, not ftp. > but for some reason > UP2date just hangs when I run it Hangs where? > and I have tried apt and yum but I have > no clue as to what I am doing there I just get errors relating to > packages I Try downloading. What errors? Are you using a mirror? > nothing works for me I assume it is our > firewall. If you can browse the web I highly doubt it is your firewall. -- William Hooper