[Yum] Yum Installation Problem

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 23 04:03:10 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:32 -0400, Shari Rolnick wrote:
> Sorry if this comes through twice . . .  I don't think I sent it from
> the right address the first time.
> 
> I tried to install Yum by downloading the file yum-2.4.0.tar.gz and
> doing a make/make install.  When I try to use it, I get the following
> error:
> 
> [root at localhost yum-2.4.0]# yum
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>    dynamic module does not define init function (initlibxml2)
> 
> Please install a package which provides this module, or
> verify that the module is installed correctly.
> 
> It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
> current version of Python, which is:
> 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)
> [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)]

what distro are you using this on?

I've never seen the above module error before.

> 
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please send this
> message to <yum at lists.linux.duke.edu>.
> 
> I also tried installing Yum using the RPM.  From that installation, I
> get the following errors:

that's a Source RPM, not a binary rpm.

-sv





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