>> As I had mentioned in an email of mine few days ago, when I made a 
>> fresh installation of SL in my PC, I performed a "yum update" and was 
>> performing abnormal termination during the update process. Then I 
>> tried "yum upgrade", and it worked.
>  
> But I'm not seeing (and have never seen) abnormal termination in yum. 
> It's just that 'yum update' doesn't seem to be doing what it should - 
> update *all* packages to the latest version!

Okay, I've just tried it again and firefox, etc are going to be updated. 
It's just the 'apr' issue that's stopping things now (mentioned in 
another thread)...

Rob