On 8/12/19 2:48 AM, Fred Smith wrote: ... > > I removed the distro-provided LO, excluded it so yum won't try > to reinstall it, some time ago. ... > I don't understand why yum refuses to install it, while rpm will. if you exclude it in /etc/yum.conf then yum will not install it when you ask it to, depending on how you specify the exclude= pattern! > > Thanks for all your responses! > > Fred > you are welcome! Kay