Seth, having added [pre-extras] name=Pre Extras baseurl=http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 I looked to see what was available, then tried to update. Results follow: ..... --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: aalib = %{epoch}:1.4.0-0.rc5.2 for package: aalib-devel Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 219, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 187, in resolveDeps (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 271, in _processReq CheckDeps, missingdep = self._requiringFromTransaction(requiringPkg, requirementTuple, errormsgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 420, in _requiringFromTransaction provSack = self.whatProvides(needname, needflags, needversion) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 65, in whatProvides (r_e, r_v, r_r) = rpmUtils.miscutils.stringToVersion(version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line 307, in stringToVersion epoch = string.atol(verstring[:i]) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/string.py", line 419, in atol return _long(s, base) ValueError: invalid literal for long(): %{epoch} -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn