[Yum] yum error

[Jeff Pitman]

On Monday 03 October 2005 08:11, Jani Partanen wrote:
>    No module named cElementTree
>
> 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, Jun 21 2005, 02:38:47)
> [GCC 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3)]

This is due to your system having Python 2.4.1.  The system default for 
Fedora Core 3 is Python 2.3.x.  Your python-elementtree version only 
installs into /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages.  Your /usr/bin/python 
points to Python 2.4.1.  /usr/bin/yum uses #!/usr/bin/python and 
therefore cannot load and use the ElementTree libraries giving this 
error and failing to continue.

You have a couple of options:

1. Make sure that /usr/bin/python points to python2.3.
2. Change #!/usr/bin/python in /usr/bin/yum to #!/usr/bin/python2.3.
3. Get elementtree for python 2.4. <-- You're bound to run into other 
incompatibilities.
4. If you really want python2.4 and don't want to upgrade to FC4, then 
you're welcome (shameless plug coming...) to use my repo here: 
http://python.org/pyvault.  See full disclosure before continuing.


-- 
-jeff