I was removing all the desktop'y stuff from a headless server, and did.. yum remove -y ORBit2-2.14.3-4.fc6.x86_64 It removed orbit, but then dozens of the dependancies started failing during uninstallation because libORBit-2.so.0 had disappeared.. Removing : ORBit2 ####################### [25/87] gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Removing : gcalctool ####################### [26/87] Removing : bluez-utils ####################### [27/87] Removing : libgnome ####################### [28/87] Removing : gnome-python2-extras ####################### [29/87] Removing : gnome-python2-gnomevfs ####################### [30/87] Removing : libgsf ####################### [31/87] gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Removing : gnome-terminal ####################### [32/87] warning: /etc/ntp/ntpservers saved as /etc/ntp/ntpservers.rpmsave Removing : system-config-date ####################### [33/87] Removing : gnome-python2-desktop ####################### [34/87] Removing : ORBit2-devel ####################### [35/87] Removing : pirut ####################### [36/87] gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Removing : nautilus-cd-burner ####################### [37/87] Removing : gnome-mount ####################### [38/87] Removing : gnome-user-share ####################### [39/87] Removing : gnome-spell ####################### [40/87] gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Should gconf depend on ORBit2 perhaps ?
[mclasen@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --requires GConf2 | grep ORBit libORBit-2.so.0 So whatever problem you had should be fixed in F8, at least.