Hi, I'm slightly ashamed to admit I haven't used an epel repository so far. I got this epel.repo from the EMI1 installation guide /[extras] name=epel mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch protect=0/ is this correct? cheers alessandra -- Facts aren't facts if they come from the wrong people. (Paul Krugman)