On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:51:55 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > One up2date option of great value is: > > up2date --show-orphans > > The only orphans you want are 'special' packages that > you know, love and understand. Most of this is way over my head, alas. I did hit that command once before, and got screensful of stuff -- but didn't and don't have any idea what to do about it. Go through them doing "rpm -e whatever"?? -- Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!