On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:05, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > the manpage for yum in the update section says: > "If no package matches the given package name(s), they are assumed to be a > shell glob and any matches are then installed." > > well i tried: > yum update kde* You might want to try: yum update kde\* as the shell expands kde* first and looks for it in the cwd. -sv