It looks like the latest version of yum now works again. Download bandwidth was good ( Much better than up2date ) I was able to download all available updates today ( 10/19/2004 ) using yum - y update However, it did not install them. yum exited after successfully downloading all of the latest rpm updates. However, I was able to install them all by running rpm -Uvh * from the command line as superuser after cd ing to /var/cache/yum/development/packages