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Description of problem: If one reads just man yum.conf it is easy to believe that the line containing color is correct. ######################## [main] color <other main stuff> ######################### The manpage says: color Display colorized output automatically, depending on the output terminal, always (using ANSI codes) or never. Command- line option: --color The first word is in bold and there is no mention of having to assign it a value and if any which are the valid values. Now, I did find where the valid values are documented (man yum), but one should be able to read the manpage to get the grammar that is valid for a configuration file from just one manpage. This manpage fails at this point. So, you can either change the software or you can change the documentation. The error you get is something like this: CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Parsing file failed: File contains parsing errors: file:///etc/yum.conf [line 11]: color
every option in yum.conf has the format option=<value> So it would be a little strange to think that just typing 'color' would be ok :) But you are right, it not described in the yum.conf man file, that you should use option=<value>, just descriptions of the options and the values.