[Yum] Re: Having Yum Problems

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 15:23 +0000, John Fox wrote:
> Hi Seth Vidal,
> 
> I have eventually resolved the problem and yum is working once
> again. Solution was very laborious,  I had to download from the
> Centos repo:
> expat-devel
> db4-devel
> gdbm-devel
> elfutils-devel
> krb5-devel
> libselinux-devel
> neon
> neon-devel
> sqlite-devel
> zlib-devel
> openssl-devel .....and install
> At Atrpms.net downloaded all the rpm-4.4.2 files and pythonabi.
> After installing all files librpmbuild-4.4.so was re-installed
> on the server and yum is again functional. Python 2.5 I had to
> manually uninstall.
> Again thank you for all the help and guidance.

The important lesson from this is that if it is a central component to
your system, only install from an rpm package.

-sv