[Yum] Installing Yum

[Weytens, Randy J.]

Hello -
 
I'm new to yum and have not been able to find any install/uninstall instructions.  I've looked all over the Linux at Duke pages and Google.  So I've attempted it on my own, trying both the source (make, make install) and the rpm.  I've also tried rpmbuild --rebuild <package>.  After both attempts I always get the following message:
 
<lnx00:~>$ yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
   No module named yum
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:
2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 2005, 11:44:49)
[GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)]
If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

I am running RHEL4 with the current version of Python and gcc.  Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
 
Randy Weytens