On Thursday 29 September 2005 13:30, Nic Soltani wrote: > $ rpm -e libpython2.4 > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 Removal of packages has to be done as the root user. > $ python > Python 2.4 (#1, Sep 28 2005, 22:00:43) > [GCC 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more > information. Good. Now check that python-elementtree is in line with the upstream version: $ rpm -q python-elementtree Try yum again and send the new error message back to the list (if there is any, of course). -- -jeff