Thank you to all that helped me yesterday/today with working out what the problem was with yum, as it turns out it was a problem with the conf file being altered, but it wasnt renamed as was thought, the repositories had been altered. Now i have since altered the repositories back to the point where it can download what i beleive are redhat 9 rpm's. Does anyone know what the Fedora Core 2 ones are so i can make that final change? Thank you again Richard England and Seith Vidal, for the help N'Jal -- Is that all you got? C'mon, I'll take your best shot!