If debug messages help is thought to be, interpreting them somebody may be able to........ Please enlighten me? I don't see what the conflict is. May the source be with you, Karsten /*....tons of lines....*/ Adding qt-ODBC into 'a' state localhdrpath= /var/cache/yum/RPMS.main/headers/qt-ODBC-1-3.1.1-6.ppc.hdr for qt-ODBC ppc # of Deps = 1 debug dep: kernel req spamassassin - 2.44-4.8.x - 1 conflict: kernel spamassassin 2.44-4.8.x Restarting Dependency Loop .conflict between kernel and spamassassin [root@localhost root]# rpm -q --requires kernel rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 fileutils modutils >= 2.4.18 initscripts >= 5.83 mkinitrd >= 3.4.13 /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 initscripts >= 5.83 mkinitrd >= 3.2.6 /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 [root@localhost root]# rpm -q --requires spamassassin perl >= 5.004 /sbin/chkconfig perl-Net-DNS perl(Time::HiRes) procmail /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libcrypt.so.1 libdb-4.0.so libdl.so.2 libgdbm.so.2 libm.so.6 libnsl.so.1 libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) libutil.so.1 perl >= 0:5.001 perl(AnyDBM_File) perl(AutoLoader) perl(Carp) perl(Config) perl(Cwd) perl(Exporter) perl(Fcntl) perl(File::Basename) perl(File::Copy) perl(File::Path) perl(File::Spec) perl(Getopt::Long) perl(IO::Socket) perl(IPC::Open2) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::AuditMessage) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::AutoWhitelist) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::ConfSourceSQL) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Dns) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EvalTests) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Message) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PersistentAddrList) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PhraseFreqs) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Replier) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Reporter) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::SMTP::SmartHost) perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::TextCat) perl(Net::DNS) perl(Net::SMTP) perl(POSIX) perl(Pod::Usage) perl(Socket) perl(Symbol) perl(Sys::Hostname) perl(Sys::Syslog) perl(Text::Wrap) perl(Time::HiRes) perl(Time::Local) perl(lib) perl(strict) perl(vars)