On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 11:49 -0400, Hsin Wang wrote: > yum-updateonboot Only if you really want YUM to run at bootup and do updates to your system, first thing. Doesn't sound a good idea to me. > yum-utils No idea what's specifically in there, beyond the brief blurb it uses to describe itself, but I don't have them (and YUM works fine for me). > yumex Gives you a GUI to see what's available for update, or fresh install, from the website, and will automatically fetch any other packages required for an installation/update. I've *also* installed this on my system. It's quite handy. Not only do you see what's available, but you've also got the descriptions to go with the packages. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.