[Yum] problem in yum

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, kesavan \(K7\) wrote:

> hi guys
> i have tried to install some packages by using yum
> but its showed some error message
> so  guide me
> how to solve this problem?
> 
> the error was 
>         [root at production ~]# yum
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
> 
>   libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems like you do not have elfutils-libelf installed and/or it cannot 
be found. That seems like a bad place to be.

run this command to see what is missing:

rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5


thanks,
-sv