Paul Howarth wrote: > I'm not clear why there is a reference to openssl.i386 0:0.9.7a-42.1 >> in the exerpt below; >> this appears to be an old package which is no longer present. > An FC4 system should be using an "extras" repository (specified > in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo), so it seems that your yum > configuration is at least partly still configured for FC3. What are your > repo definitions? You were all quite right. Thank you. At some time in the distant past I started a "home" repository which I had completely forgotten about, and which had "3" throughout rather than $releasever. Now all is well again, and "yum upgrade" has given me over 100 new packages, all successfully installed. -- 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