greetings, please excuse delay. pain gets priority. ;-) after many hours of retries using yum and verifying results of error messages, i may have figured out problem. tho not sure how to correct. when trying install with yumex, pulling from nux and rpmforge, i got noting. when trying install with yum, pulling from nux and rpmforge, i got noting. so, i pulled base files from nux, ran local install, got error messages for all dependencies. same for rpm forge. to my thinking, this would be because repo files have wrong urls. oops. [chemo brain] + [oxycodone for pain from surgery monday] = brain fart. smell told me i failed to enable nux site. install now running. will post back after testing vlc. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g .