david walcroft wrote: > This seems to be getting worse instead of better and should 'gpgcheck' > be disabled. Sorry to be sarky, but your problems appear to me to arise from trying to improve on yum. Why not uninstall it, then re-install it and use it in the usual way? -- 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