On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:46:21 -0500, Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. man yum to work around missing deps or conflicts for when using yum update use --exclude=package for example yum --exclude=libmusicbrainz* --exclude=libwnck* --exclude=gnome-panel* --exclude=gnome-applets* --exclude=usermode* --exclude=gok* --exclude=gnome-system-monitor update to specify 32bit versions use packagename.arch for example yum update cpp.i386 to update the cpp 32bit version. There is no 'force' or 'reinstall' in yum's vocabulary. If you want to force or reinstall something use the rpm cli tool. -jef -jef