[Yum] I broke yum

[Iman Khabazian]

Hello Guys/Gals,

I was wondering if someone could help me.

I was trying to install git on a redhat box, and I broke yum some how.  I’ve
been trying to fix yum for many days to no avail, and I was wondering if
you could give me some tips.



Here is basically what I am looking at

* *

*[root at n ~]# yum install git*

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:

2.4.4 (#1, Nov  8 2007, 22:06:01)

[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)]



If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to

the yum faq at:

  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

* *

*[root at n ~]# which python*

/usr/bin/python



* [root at n ~]# ls /usr/bin/* | grep python*

/usr/bin/python

/usr/bin/python2

/usr/bin/python2.4



*[root at n ~]# python -V*

Python 2.4.4



*[root at n ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release*

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)



*[root at n ~]# uname -a*

Linux n.sites.net 2.6.18-028stab056 #1 SMP Mon Nov 2 13:19:07 UTC 2009 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux



I have tried to use rpm to re-install yum like this:



*[root at n ~]# sudo rpm -Uvh
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch.rpm --replacefiles*

Retrieving http://dl.atrpms.net/all/yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch.rpm

warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature

error: Failed dependencies:

        /usr/bin/python2.3 is needed by yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch

        pygpgme is needed by yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch

        python(abi) = 2.3 is needed by yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch

        python-iniparse is needed by yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch

        rpm >= 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch

        yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0 is needed by yum-3.2.22-4.el4.noarch



I think perhaps yum is being installed to work with python 2.3 which I
don’t even have (I have 3 separate versions for 2.4.4)

This also leads me to believe I have yum:



*[root at n ~]# sudo find / -mount -name yum -type f -ls*

3433201    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         1036 Aug 28  2007
/etc/rc.d/init.d/yum

3433147    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           89 Aug 28  2007
/etc/logrotate.d/yum

3557795    4 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          779 Aug 28  2007
/usr/bin/yum

*[root at n ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum*

yum-2.4.3-0.5.el4

Any thoughts?
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