Matthew Saltzman said ------------------------------------------ Pidgin needs something in libnm_glib.so.0, which is provided by NetworkManager-glib. This doesn't sound like such a great thing, but evolution also has that requirement. If it bothers you, file a Bugzilla entry suggesting that the relevant functions be broken out of NetworkManager-glib. You should be able to remove other NetworkManager packages without removing NetworkManager-glib. You should also be able to just shut it off (/sbin/service NetworkManager stop; /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager stop; same for NetworkManagerDispatcher--the first stops it running now, the second prevents it from starting on boot). I don't really understand yum's view of dependencies. The logic of removing a package and everything it depends on, and everything that depends on those packages, etc., escapes me.[1] Use rpm to remove packages if you don't want yum to run amok deleting other stuff. [1] I could understand removing a package and everything it depends on that doesn't, in turn, have something else depending on it. But this way, it seems like removing almost anything can end up ripping most of a functioning system out by the roots. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mj ------------------------------------------------------- Thanks I will fool with removing that. Craig said: ---------------------------------------------------- chkconfig NetworkManager off chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher off chkconfig network on service NetworkManager stop service network restart at this point, system-config-network will work just like it always has. NetworkManager is useful when you are using wireless or just dhcp but 'network' service works fine with dhcp too. Craig __________________________________________________- Thanks. I did those commands and it seems to be working fine. That is the way I ran in fc7. I guess a "yum upgrade" would have avoided the whole thing. I still have the fc7 partition so, when I am comfortable in fc8, I may run the upgrade to compare the differences. Thanks.