The problem which began this long an laborious thread has been solved with an edit of /etc/rpm/platform replacing i386 with i686. Whatever created this file thinks my cpu is not an i686. Many thanks to all who helped track this down! Hitler is dead. End of thread! -- Bob Taylor _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos