[Yum] Problems with yum after FC4 update

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:00:13PM -0600, Michael Simpson enlightened us:
> Since updating to Fedora Core 4 I haven't been able to get yum to work.
> When I try to run yum update I get the following message:
> 
> 
> *[root at sight etc]# yum update
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:*
> 
> *   No module named rpm*
> 
> *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)]*
> 
> In python this is the error I get when I try to import yum & rpm
> 
> *[root at insight etc]# python
> Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)
> [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import yum
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "__init__.py", line 21, in ?
> ImportError: No module named rpm
> >>> import rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named rpm
> *
> 
> This is what I have:
> 
> *[root at sight etc]# rpm -q python
> python-2.4.1-2
> [root at sight etc]# rpm -q rpm
> rpm-4.4.2-15.1_58.rhfc2.at
> [root at sight etc]# rpm -q yum
> yum-2.4.1-1.fc4*
> 
> I'm fairly new to linux, can anyone help me?
> 

Make sure the rpm-python package is installed.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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