Add/Remove Programs oddity

[Mark Fraser]

In article <f84880b00704101152t22ddf85cq4c97d0b1f83616ca at mail.gmail.com>,
   Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Mark Fraser <fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > In article <f84880b00704091400n3b1a47a4r17ee2557ee97aa57 at mail.gmail.com>,
> >    Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:

[Snip]

> > > Sure does.  Did you happen to upgrade pirut recently?  Perhaps you
> > > need to un-install and re-install it.
> >
> > I haven't purposely upgraded it recently, but as I said in my initial
> > post I'm also getting similar problems with Kyum. Which is why I don't
> > think it's just a pirut problem, is the data for both of these programs
> > common and held somewhere that I can delete?

> Both pirut and kyum depend upon yum (yum depends upon rpm) to do the
> heavy lifting. Check /etc/yum.conf and the repo files under
> /etc/yum.repos.d/ for changes. If you are not familiar with yum do a "man
> yum" or "man yum.conf". Another resource is
> http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/Yum .

I've done a
yum clean all
and even deleted all of var/cache/yum, but I'm still getting the same
problems. In kyum I just see a blank line (apart from what looks like a
floppy icon) where the group should be.