[Yum] yumming

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:35:50PM -0500, G Lampshire wrote:
> Thought I would send this along, as I was prompted to -
> I've got Redhat 4 EL ihstalled;
>  uname -a
> Linux hercules 2.6.9-5.EL #1 Wed Jan 5 19:22:18 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> I installed Python 2.4.2 but that doesn't seem to help?

Indeed, doing that is likely to screw things up, since mismatched python
versions is a big source of this sort of problem. How did you install the
new non-RHEL4 version of python? (Via RPM?)

> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>    No module named yum
> 
> Please install a package which provides this module, or
> verify that the module is installed correctly.

Y'know, maybe the error message should special case "No module named yum"
and give a different warning.


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