PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>> Somehow I managed to load readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 PS>> on my Fedora 8 box. It seems to be newer than any PS>> version currently available from the standard mirrors PS>> (readline-5.2-7.fc8). I only point to standard PS>> mirrors. Maybe this newer version was temporarily PS>> made available, then removed. JD = Jonathan Dieter JD> FWIW, I have readline-5.2-9.fc8 on my systems; it came JD> through on January 17. It's causing me grief... # package-cleanup --orphans Setting up yum readline-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 dbus-python-0.82.3-1.fc7.x86_64 readline-devel-5.2-9.fc8.x86_64 Johnathan, do you have yum-utils installed? Do you see the same thing? Thanks for the help, Pete