I was able to update the latest openoffice, gpdf, selinux-policy*, checkpolicy, desktop-file-utils, ggv etc after excluding a grundle of stuff: yum --exclude=nautilus --exclude=gimp --exclude=gdm --exclude=gnome-games --exclude=libcroco --exclude=libcroco-devel --exclude=librsvg2 --exclude=librsvg2-devel update Cheers! RaXeT