It gets as far as telling me: Total download size: 207 M It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type y<enter> it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I killed the yum process with kill -9 from another window. I retried it several times; same result. Thanks for your help. Mike.