Yum and Python... something is broke

Poohba poohba at blkpoohba.dyndns.org
Wed Jul 19 14:44:11 UTC 2006


I am using FC5.

I seem to have two pythons installed.  One in /usr/local/bin and one
in /usr/bin

[10:42:38 root@~]/usr/local/bin/python
Python 2.0.1 (#1, Jul 12 2006, 18:03:04)
[GCC 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named yum
>>>
[10:42:53 root@~]/usr/bin/python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 25 2005, 09:17:42)
[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named yum
>>>

[10:43:15 root@~]uname -a
Linux blkpoohba.dyndns.org 2.6.16-1.2129_FC5 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:59:33 EDT
2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:30 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 23:40 -0400, Poohba wrote:
> > [23:31:53 root at downloads]yum
> > 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:
> > 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 25 2005, 09:17:42)
> > [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]
> 
> The above message is interesting since 2.3.5 is not the current version
> of python, although you don't say whether you are using FC4 or FC5.
> > 
> > If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> > the yum faq at:
> >   http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> > 
> > 
> > [23:31:55 root at downloads]python
> > Python 2.0.1 (#1, Jul 12 2006, 18:03:04)
> > [GCC 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)] on linux2
> > Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>> import yum
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > ImportError: No module named yum
> > 
> > [23:32:55 root at downloads]rpm -q python
> > python-2.4.3-8.FC5
> > 
> > [22:44:06 root at i386]rpm -q python-devel
> > package python-devel is not installed
> > 
> > 
> > Yum is not the only one that has the problem. 
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