My first yum update is complete. It ran a test transaction and reported 'Succcess.' I reran yum date only to find that this group of statements repeated after I had previously answered yes to this same grouping: I willl install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies: [deps: php-mbstring 4.3.8-2.1.i386] [deps: libgpg-error 0.7-1.i386] [deps: libgcrypt 1.2.0-1.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user command. [root@athenet root]#