following the steps outlined on http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora5.html ( the recommended page for fedora =>5) as root, works fine until i get to: rpm --import thomas.pubkey at which iget the "cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages" warning. i checked for yum.pid, etc. but no luck. turned off yum-updatesd. still no go. selinux troubleshooter is silent on this. is there something i'm missing? thanks, charles f zeitler : Do What Thou Wilt : : Shall Be : : The Whole of The Law :