[Yum] Script to diagnose "no module named yum"

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Fri Oct 26 11:37:36 UTC 2007


MikeW wrote:
>>From much searching it looks as if it's a broken/inconsistent Python
> installation, but Python itself does not appear to provide the means
> to diagnose or fix this. (FWIW I think it should !)
Would   rpm -V python yum rpm  give you the info you need to confirm 
that python, or indeed yum itself are "as packaged" ?

> It's not sufficient (as many of the "answers" suggest) to reinstall
> from source or from RPM - or from Synaptic.
> This does not seem to fix whatever it is that is out of alignment,
> since I have reinstalled Python, pygtk and yum from source
> without any improvement.
Is that from src.rpm or actual source ?
So that could point at config that doesn't get updated with an 
compile/install. Perhaps python library/include path ?

> I would be very grateful if the yum shell script would be able
> to take a more proactive approach to finding out what it
> needed and what was missing - maybe looking in both
> /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for example, or finding multiple
> Python installations and behaving in a sensible way.
Or perhaps you aren't using rpm to begin with ?

David Timms.



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