[Yum] No module named yummain

Michael Mraka michael.mraka at redhat.com
Wed Feb 24 12:09:18 UTC 2016


Alexandre Vieira wrote:
% Hi,
% 
% I get the following error when executing Yum on CentOS 6.7:
% 
% Traceback (most recent call last):
%   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in <module>
%     import yummain
% ImportError: No module named yummain
% 
% I found plenty of resources related to broken Yum installations, but all
% solutions are for specific modules or commands.
% 
% The last time I used Yum I updated it, I think.
% 
% I appreciate any pointers you can give me, please.

yummain is a part of yum package:
# locate yummain
/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py
/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.pyc
/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.pyo
# rpm -qf /usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py
yum-3.2.29-73.el6.noarch

The safe option is to download yum package manually and reinstal it.


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Michael Mráka
Software Management Engineering, Red Hat



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