Are there any clues in the yum error output to help me resolve dependency errors... is the list sorted - or random. With rpm, when it failed on a dependency problem it offered one or more package 'deficiencies'. When you tried to resolve one of the deficiencies, you would often encounter a couple more... and so on, perhaps a couple more levels. The good part was that if you had the patience and kept some notes you could actually work your way through the deficiency tree and resolve all the issues. If , for instance I wanted to know what package contains a missing file can I use a specific -d/-e level to obtain that output. Regards, David Potter