While everyone was right, John got the "Gold Star" award for reminding me that this server has WHM Cpanel installed on it. So far the control panel interferes more than it ever helps when I am trying to manually install packages. Thank you all for your support, I have been very impressed with the promptness and ability of the list. I am now running the newest version on the machine by installing through the CP. Thanks again Alan > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:45:11PM -0700, dev at nkmo.com wrote: >> This was my response from the yum list. > > And what does "grep -r exclude /etc/yum*" return? What control panel is > in use? > > > > > John > -- > For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good > in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know > nothing. > They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive > themselves. > > -- Paul Auster (1947-), American novelist and poet, Man In The Dark, p 63 > (2008) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >