I normally use up2date to update my system but up2date had some problems (reported in bugzilla) with the gcc packages in FC4T1 so I thought I would give yum a try. Now many (most?) source rpm packages which result in multiple binary rpm packages all have names of the form NAME-xxx-ver-rel... However, the gcc packages do not and have a variety of names. To complicate things I am running FC3T1 x86_64 which means there are both x86_64 and i386 packages to update. If I do "yum update cpp" I get all of the packages but only the x86_64 versions and I really need to do both. The only way I could get both was to specify "yum update libgcc libgnat ..." where I list all of the packages which have both i386 and x86_64 versions -- this works BUT is there an easier (simpler) way to update gcc? BTW, I could not just do "yum update" since some other packages had conflict problems. Another question that occurs to me is how to tell yum to "reinstall" a package ... the package has been installed but I want to "force" reinstall it. For example, lets say a package has both x86_64 and i386 versions and I have updated the x86_64 version but not the i386 version. Now I want to update the i386 package but to reinstall the x86_64 package at the same time so any /usr/bin or /usr/sbin files get the correct version installed. -- Gene