Ok... This is still irratating ... Did some more research and found the following pertaining to the error message I had before : "I have the below and a busted yum. sqlite-3.1.2-1 python-sqlite-1.1.6-1 The list dicussion might be clearer. rpm with the --oldpackage option might revert the builds. You might need the --nodeps option also, but I don't know." But since there is a new a yum... and a new fedora core... fc4 yum-2.3.3-1 I installed them and am still getting error messages... Could someone lend a hand and point me in a direction? Here is the error: [root@blinux2 etc]# yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 92, in main result, resultmsgs = do() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 474, in doCommands return self.updatePkgs() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 940, in updatePkgs self.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 72, in doRepoSetup yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo) File "__init__.py", line 232, in doRepoSetup File "repos.py", line 628, in getRepoXML File "repos.py", line 605, in get File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 414, in urlgrab return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 400, in _mirror_try return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs ) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 618, in urlgrab return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 547, in _retry return apply(func, (opts,) + args, {}) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 604, in retryfunc fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 727, in __init__ self._do_open() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 794, in _do_open fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 881, in _make_request fo = opener.open(req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 573, in <lambda> lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \ File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 580, in proxy_open if '@' in host: