Hi, I got yum from this site as suggested. However, It still shows errors as below, what was wrong? Thanks, Yuandan [root@host etc]# yum -c yum.repos.d/yum.update.repso check-update gaim Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "yummain.py", line 188, in main File "clientStuff.py", line 749, in get_package_info_from_servers File "clientStuff.py", line 1135, in grab File "urlgrabber.py", line 228, in retrygrab File "urlgrabber.py", line 306, in urlgrab File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 138, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 322, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 301, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 450, in <lambda> lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \ File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 457, in proxy_open if '@' in host: TypeError: iterable argument required > Either with yum 2.0 or 2.2 (but I only provide 2.0 for RHL9, like Seth > does), you may use : > > http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/yum/ > > That package comes pre-configured to use ayo.freshrpms.net, which carries > all the needed metadata. > > Matthias