> What's your "baseurl" value in the respective repo config? Hello, Thanks for your input. There is no '[repository]' entry in /etc/yum.conf . The various system settings are distributed among: /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum/<various> /etc/yum.repos.d/<various> /var/lib/yum/<various> A catalog of '/etc/yum.repos.d/repos.reo' shows the following: /etc/yum.repos.d # cat repos.repo [repos] Name=Scientific Linux repos - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/repos/$basearch/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/repos/$basearch/ http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/repos/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl7 [repos-source] Name=Scientific Linux repos - source baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/repos/SRPMS/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/repos/SRPMS/ http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/repos/SRPMS/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl7 _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum