On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:00 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > Although using linux for a long time, I'm new to Fedora Core. > > Yum is working without problems, but yumex appears to be broken on my > installation. This is FC4, with all updates applied. When I open > yumex it appears to go into an endless loop,initializing repositories, > citing filelists.xml.gz. > > Advice, please? 1. Try installing the latest yumex devel from fedora-Extras. (You will need to install yum 2.5.x from development) 2. Disable 'Filelist & Changelog' from preferences 3. Enable 'Best' Mirror detection in preferences. 4. Enable 'Debug Mode' in Preferences to get more output. Tim