I was in meetings most of the afternoon yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to try Garrick's solution until this morning. I made the list of duplicate RPMs, and it contained over 100 RPMs. It then occurred to me that I only needed to remove the RPMs that are causing the conflict to get yum to finish the update. But then along came Karanbir's email, and using "package-cleanup --problems" narrowed down the list even further. I did an "rpm -q" for each package identified by "package-cleanup --problems" followed by an "rpm -e" of the higher versioned RPM. Then "yum update" worked just fine. However, I still have a lot of duplicate RPMs installed. I don't think I can do an "rpm -e" on the lower versioned RPM, since many (if not all) of the files are in the newer RPM as well. Maybe I'll have to do an "rpm -e --justdb" for each lower versioned RPM to fix this... In any event, thanks for your help. This list is great. Alfred