I ran the -d 5 flag and you were correct. There was a dependency loop. I guess this brings up a couple of questions. 1) how do I determine which item is creating the dependency loop? 2) how can I eliminate the loop so that Yum can run an initial update? I did run #yum update <pkgname> for a number of packages but this did become tedious. (although way better than where I started!!) I ran yum update <pkgname> ...<pkgname> and this ran fine also. I have tried to run the following (please excuse my ignorance here as I am new to Linux) I tried to add the shared object to my path (PATH) and my library path (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and still it yielded the same result. What am I doing wrong? OS = Red Hat 7.2 #[root@rhl_1 root]# yum update rpm Gathering package information from servers Getting headers from: ASPLinux 7.2 Master Site Getting headers from: ASPLinux 7.2 Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies package gnorpm needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) package kdeadmin needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-python needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-build needs librpm-4.0.3.so (not provided) package kdeadmin needs librpmbuild-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-build needs librpmbuild-4.0.3.so (not provided) package gnorpm needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) package kdeadmin needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-python needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-build needs librpmdb-4.0.3.so (not provided) package gnorpm needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) package kdeadmin needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-python needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) package rpm-build needs librpmio-4.0.3.so (not provided) Thanks again for your help, Geoff
