Mike Hoy wrote: > how do i 'use pre-extras' ? It's a yum repository. See http://lwn.net/Articles/116805/ . It recommends putting this into /etc/yum.conf: [pre-extras] name=Pre Extras baseurl=http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 Why, I'm not sure: I've put it into a new file named /etc/yum.repos.d/pre-extras.repo . Set it up, and then the yum install command you listed should work. James. -- James Wilkinson | They say the heat and the flies here can drive a man Exeter Devon UK | insane. But you don't have to believe that, and nor E-mail address: james | does that bright mauve elephant that just cycled @westexe.demon.co.uk | past. -- Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent