On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64 ding ding ding! Scott Silva wins a Prize! That was the last key piece. William Maltby and Matt Hyclak pointed out the first vital bits of updating yum, sqlite and and then limiting the repos that the system banged on. Johnny (HappyFunBall) Hughes and Karanbir Singh noted that metadata- parser would need upgrading as well. [Many thanks for the hard work they do on CentOS!] So, to summarize: Download the latest RPMS for: yum yum-metadata-parser sqlite python python-sqlite You will have to manually satisfy any additional dependencies. Once done, I was able to "yum -y update" to my heart's content. --Chris