I'm going with a reinstall .. of the os ...<br>Thanks for the help ..<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Timothy Murphy</b> <<a href="mailto:tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie">tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Gregory Machin wrote:<br><br>> if I try and exicute python from the comand line I get the following ....
<br>><br>> -bash: /usr/bin/python: cannot execute binary file<br><br>So your problem has nothing to do with yum;<br>you do not have python properly installed.<br>You could try (as superuser) "chmod 755 /usr/bin/python".
<br>If that doesn't work, you could try re-installing the python rpm.<br><br>But if that doesn't work,<br>there are so many things that depend on python<br>that it might be simpler to re-install fedora.<br><br><br>--<br>Timothy Murphy
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