[Yum] I broke yum

[Alois Steindl]

Hello,
it seems that you have seriously trashed your yum.
In order to reinstall it, you have to choose the right version (your 
installed python is newer than the requested one, so I guess that you 
tried to install a too old version of yum.

Browse to a repository for your installed version of the OS, download 
the found yum (it should be newer than the one you tried; maybe it helps 
to type
rpm -q yum
to get the proper version. Then try to install yum using rpm. If there 
are more unresolved dependencies, download these also and install them, 
by calling
rpm -U yum*.rpm <and all other packages>
until the problem is resolved.
Since you have a quite old OS installed, I would also suggest to upgrade 
to a newer version.

Alois

Am 06.04.2013 07:47, schrieb Iman Khabazian:
> *[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*
>
> 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?
>