Yum and Python... something is broke

[Paul Howarth]

Poohba wrote:
> 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

Try renaming /usr/local/bin/python to /usr/local/bin/python2.0 so that 
all of the system scripts that are built for python 2.4 don't find your 
local python 2.0 instead. You'll need to tweak whatever it is that you 
have python 2.0 for to use "python2.0" instead of "python".

Paul.