[Yum] problems reinstalling yum

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:40 +0200, Roland Ziegler (dopoly GmbH) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I recently tried to reinstall yum by removing the rpms from my FC4 
> system using "rpm --erase yum-2.3.2-7" and installing it again using 
> "rpm -Uvh yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm". After doing this, I receive the 
> following error message while starting yum regardless what parameters I use:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 34, in main
>     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 379, in setlocale
>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
> 
> I even tried to reinstall python (the same way like yum) and installed 
> different versions of yum but nothing did help up to now.
> 
> Does anyone of you have an idea how to fix that?
> 

use a more recent version of yum.

yum 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 should be in updates-released from FC4.

-sv