On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 21:03 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > > > I have tried to convey in the past the need to NOT use non CentOS > > repos ... or to greatly restrict what these repos can update on a CentOS > > machine > > I'm on board with that. But when I wanted to install Quanta, I was given > advice on this list that the KDE repos necessary to get it were safe. > > I'm not pointing fingers, just saying that I'm in a bit of a swirling > vortex of advice, and it doesn't always line up. And I don't have the > skills to to discern which side of advice that conflicts that I should > follow. > > If I want to install something like Quanta, or any other software that > isn't in Dag or the official CentOS repos, then I might as well just > consider it not available? ---- not necessarily - it's the repo's that you are using with yum that could be at issue... what's output of cat /etc/yum.conf cat /etc/yum.repos.d/* Apparently you still have the kde repo configured Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.