Hi Steve, starting a new thread here as this has segued off the original subject. Steven Timm wrote on 11/12/2009 1:59 PM: > It's part of the yum-utils rpm which is not > installed by default in SL but is available via yum install > If you're running a Red Hat 5 system (as opposed to SL5) > it's indispensable to have yum-complete-transaction; you end > up using it a lot. > > Steve So, now I'm a bit curious and concerned. The curious part: What is it about yumming in RHEL 5, and apparently not in SL5, that makes yum-complete-transaction indispensable? :-) The concerned part: I know I can easily install yum-utils (now that I know about it), but why is it not included in SL, and more importantly is there a possibility that something gets screwed up by *not* running yum-complete-transaction, when my SL5 yum says to? Instead, I ignored that and just went ahead with a 'yum update' and as far as I can tell, things are ok. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[log in to unmask] | http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson