Red Hat wrote: > Out of curiosity, I did an APT-GET CLEAN and it processed and went back > to a prompt with no messages or other indications at all. I also did a > YUM CLEAN and got the following: > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - core > Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - freshrpms > Server - Fedora Linux 2 - i386 - updates > Finding updated packages > Cleaning packages and old headers > > So that looks like it also updates at the same time. I don't get a message like that. What version of yum are you using? ====================================== [tim@martha ~]$ sudo yum clean all Cleaning up Everything 1 headers removed 1 packages removed 6 metadata files removed 3 cache files removed [tim@martha ~]$ yum --version 2.2.0 ====================================== -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland