On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 12:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Why doesn't yum tell you that? > It's a very good program, > but not very good at explaining what is going on. man yum.conf /debuglevel /errorlevel You could increase one or both above the defaults. I agree that the default manner of operation does do more thing behind the curtains than in front of them. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.