yum broken

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:51:04 -0700, Reynold wrote:

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> Trying to run yum I get the following error message:
> 
> 
> yum update
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

>     import pycurl
> ImportError: libcrypto.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> >>>
> 
> This is Fedora 21 x86_64 running Gnome desktop. I use dnf but still
> would like to fix Yum. Any pointers in the right direction? Thanks in
> advance.

Verify the openssl-libs package using "rpm -V openssl-libs". In case that
doesn't fail, also verify your installation of python-pycurl and its
dependency on libcrypto (from openssl-libs package). Especially pay
attention to the symlinks related to /usr/lib64/libcrypto*