On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Barry wrote: > I installed Fedora 20 yesterday, and after the installation was done, I > installed a few packages successfully and then updated all the packages, > and then shut down > > Today when I first turned on the machine, I tried installing the > remaining stuff I want, and I got a python error, to wit: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py", line 1 > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfb' in file > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py on line 2, but no encoding > declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details > > I took a look at i18n.py, and it's a binary file, which couldn't be > right. > > There's no i18n.pyo, but there is a i18n.pyc. > > It seems to me I might be able to reinstall python from the rpm, but I'm > not sure about this. > > Thanks for any help > > I should have said reinstall yum, and I tried that after finding yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm but rpm failed to unpack the archive. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_quotes.html -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org