Yum-Arch is, I think, a red herring. Yum-Arch, according to pbone: "This package only provides the old yum-arch command from yum-2.2.2 It should be used to generate repository informations for Fedora Core < 3 and RedHat Enterprise Linux < 4." So that's not even relevent to CentOS 4 or 5 in any way. Hadi: Have you tried downloading and installing the yum package from the CentOS mirrors? -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie