fresh install of fedora 8, and unable to use yum

[Kam Leo]

On Nov 13, 2007 5:03 PM, Steve Strong <strong at crwash.org> wrote:
> the error i get is:
>
> yum update
> bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or
> directory
>
> python and yum are both installed... any ideas about what might be going on?
> steve
>
> --
> Steve Strong
> Math an Computer Science
> Washington High School
> 2205 Forest Dr. SE
> Cedar Rapids, IA   52402

Obligatory questions:

1) Are you running yum as either root or supersuser?

2) If the above, is F8 a clean install or an upgrade?