[Yum] Yum failing FC3 and FC4

[Larry.D.Boehm at VerizonWireless.com]

All,
My yum is dead starting on FC3 with a python error.
Tried removing and reinstalling, failed
Tried upgrading, failed
Tried downloading source, compiling and installing, failed.
Removed all and upgraded to FC4. Upgrade successful, yum still failing
(up2date failing too)
Through out this I was looking on the groups and internet for hints;

Where I am now is this message:
The yum libraries do not seem to be availableon 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 installyum was built for your
install o                             f python.

Reading notes, I see that urlgrabber and python-devel is needed
Doing a rpm-q shows them not installed...so I install them.
Doing another rpm -q shows still not installed...huh?!

# rpm -Uvh python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
        package python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1 is already installed

# rpm -q libmxl* *python* yum*
package libmxl* is not installed
package libxml2-python-2.6.19-1.i386.rpm is not installed
package libxml2-python-2.6.20-1.FC4.x86_64.rpm is not installed
package python-2.4.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm is not installed
package rpm-python-4.4.1-21.i386.rpm is not installed
package yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm is not installed

[root at GA-LDBoehm tmp]# rpm -q libmxl* *python* yum*
package libmxl* is not installed
package libxml2-python-2.6.19-1.i386.rpm is not installed
package libxml2-python-2.6.20-1.FC4.x86_64.rpm is not installed
package python-2.4.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm is not installed
package rpm-python-4.4.1-21.i386.rpm is not installed
package yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm is not installed

[root at GA-LDBoehm tmp]# rpm -q python
python-2.4.1-2

[root at GA-LDBoehm tmp]# rpm -q python*
package python-2.4.1-2.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm is not installed
package python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm is not installed


What is going on here?!
Can anyone offer some insight...ok, forget the insight..how do I fix
this?
TIA

Larry Boehm




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