[Yum] Updating Python

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jul 12 14:24:47 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:14 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:13:52PM +0200, Bertrand Arquilliere wrote:
> > The yum libraries do not seem to be available on your system for this
> > version of python  2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)
> > [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)]
> > Please make sure the package you used to install yum was built for your
> > install of python.
> 
> This error message is often misleading. To see the real error, run 'python'
> from the command line, and type 'import yum'. The problem probably isn't
> with your version of python at all, but with a missing libxml2-python or
> python-sqlite or python-elementree package.
> 

please, setup a wiki account and add it to:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq


thanks,
-sv





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