[TriLUG] How Do I Install Yum?

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 16:38:38 EDT 2005


I'd do a 'rpm -qa | grep -i yum' to see what is in there and what isn't.
Could you install from rpm rather then source? I have had better luck with
that route.

Greg

On 9/26/05, Randy Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> I am trying to install yum on my NCSU Realm Kit (Red Hat Based) system,
> and so I downloaded the source and ran
>
> sudo make
> sudo make install
>
> Now when I run yum, I get
>
> 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:
> 2.2.3 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:22:48)
> [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)]
>
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please send this
> message to <yum at lists.linux.duke.edu>.
>
> What should I do? Thanks!
>
> Randy Barlow
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