I tried the two suggestions: I am now using "createrepo ." and chown -R and chmod -R to make sure they are readable by apache. I also change my repo line from using 6.2 to just use 6. repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/6/updates/x86_64/ I have a symbolic link from 6 to 6.2 There error I get is the same: "fatal error occured when installing the dbus package." Exit installer. Doing ALT-F2 at that point and looking around at files in /tmp I see no errors, nothing is in /var/log/ What else can I try? Thanks, Jerry