Reinstalling my system using 64 bit has fixed many of many performance issues. Coming from the redhat line I'm used to using yum and like using yum. I've installed yum on opensuse 10.3 and added the videolan and packman repos. I'm having a lot of problems with things getting broken. For example, if I install vlc it installs a bunch of packages, but does not remove any. It wants to install both 64 and 32 bit. I don't know why it's doing that. After installing vlc yum and rpm are broken because libpopt.so.0 is missing. Actually it's libpopt.so.0.0.0 or something. I may be off slightly there, but the point is the same. Anyway, I reinstalled from scratch and made sure I did NOT install the 32bit support as part of the install. Installing vlc did the same thing. I'm reinstalling again because I don't know what else got broken even if I fix popt. I'll try using just yast for the installations and see if that goes better. Just to be clear, it's not just vlc causing this, that was just an example. Any suggestions? Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org