[Yum] yum error

Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 13:11:36 UTC 2005


On 8/31/05, Prasad J Pandit <prasad at ncb.ernet.in> wrote:
> 
>   Welll..., I did download a yum source from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.4/
> and installed it...before doing(installing) that, yum's crying about
> python version and availability of libraries, as explained in
> http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq#Q7...and after installing yum-2.4, it
> gave that long message and link to this mailing list...Thanks!
> 

Ok, and specifically how did you install that rpm?  rpm --rebuild and
then installed the resulting binary?  Did you get the tar.gz and do a
make/make install?

I think the rpm --rebuild method is more likely to work.

Greg



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