Due to the compliments I have been hearing about yum, I am trying to make yum work for me. It is not going so well. Switching out URL's for the base and updates in the yum.conf file I can make different things happen. None quite right. However is what happens using the original files: After many lines of: "getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/....." I get : "IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer "URL: http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/headers/rarpd-0-ss981107-12.ppc.hdr" Can anyone explain this Thanks, Paul