[ale] FC3 yum installation glitch

[Pete Hardie]

On 11/26/05, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> Uugh. I HATE it when the tool you like you use to upgrade/install things
> breaks.

Yep.  How do you bootstrap installation? :->

>
> You will need to manually download yum.rpm and install it with rpm.
> Plus, track down any dependencies manually.

I reloaded from the install CD, then used yum to upgrade Python, and
all appears well.  Thanks for the info.


>
> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:45 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I just re-imaged a box with FC3 and updated python, and now yum don't
> > work - I get the following error:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ?
> >     import yummain
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ?
> >     import yum
> > ImportError: No module named yum
> >
> >
> > My limited Python experience suggests a PYTHONPATH or similar issue
> > with the location path environment, but I'm lost as to where to fix.
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Pete
> >
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