[Yum] newbie

[Brian Long]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 14:32 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote:

> RHEL3 is a slightly older distro, that means some of its software is a
> bit out of date.  One of those packages is python.  If you run 'rpm -q
> python', you'll see that you have python-2.2.  
> 
> Reading the yum download page, you can see that yum-2.6 requires
> python-2.4.  The last version of yum that supports python-2.2 is
> yum-2.0, so you need to download from the yum-2.0.x link.

Garrick,

My group is successfully using yum 2.4.3 on thousands of RHEL 3 boxes
running the stock Python 2.2.  Before that, we used yum-2.2.x and it
worked great.  Are the docs just out of date? 

I've heard yum shell is broken on yum-2.4.x on RHEL 3, but we've never
run into that issue.

/Brian/

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