I don't understand why I can't get yum to skip this package. Please copy me directly on any response. thanx, MYK [root@myserver root]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not available. [root@myserver root]# yum --exclude gnome-utils update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not available. [root@myserver root]# yum --exclude=gnome-utils update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not available. Thanx, Michael Miller System Engineer Visualization Technology Support Computing and Data Management National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois - UC 217-649-0747 "If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even more." -Paul Debevec