Garrick Staples wrote: >> I have attempted to run: >> >> >> >> Install yum >> >> >> >> But I get an error message return that states: >> >> "Install: too few arguments" >There is no such command as "Install". I don't know what you are doing >over there. Yeah, well that makes two of us then it appears. I fully acknowledge to everyone in the world reading my posts that I don't know much of what I am doing when working in Linux. I try to read as much as I can about these systems and try to decipher what all the talk means but frankly I have a hard time following the rules of the road in this operating system sometimes. >To build yum-2.0.8.tar.gz, run this: > rpmbuild -ta yum-2.0.8.tar.gz >That will build yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm (the full path will be printed >near the end of the build. >Then install that package with: > rpm -Uvh <fullpath>yum-2.0.8-1.noarch.rpm Thank you very much for this instructional information. I will make sure I download yum 2.0.8 and run the commands you mention above. Steve Ingraham