It's been since FC2 that I have tried to use yum but always failed whatever and however many replies I have got from this list and tried all. Like just installing apt on debian and using apt-get update and in a split second, it connects and gets updates from servers and there's a lit of updates on the screen getting downloaded and in a few minutes you can apt-get install anything. I guess yum is nowhere near apt and well it might be working for some but atleast not for me. I'd be glad if just like the apt sources.list, someone can paste me a working yum.conf file that I can just paste in yum.conf and instantly get the updates like apt ? Previously I had proxy issues too but now I have a direct connection to the net but still yum won't work. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.