<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Mark <<a href="mailto:markg85@gmail.com">markg85@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Pseudo code style.. yum list install gimp [1] if yum found gimp - ask to look for updates and install them if the user answers "y" else - install gimp [1] I noticed that yum wants to update his local repository here as well. I think it's better to get that behaviour out yum and only update it's local repo if there is none available or a update command is given or a install command is given. Hope that explains it better. </blockquote></div> Human: I want to see what version of a package I have installed without doing network access. Yum command: yum list installed packagename Human I want to see if there is an update of that package available Yum command yum list updates packagename I dont see a reason why yum needs to be interactive and prompt for a chain of queries..when you can do the queries yourself in whatever order you desire. -jef