> After moving keepalive.py* out of the way and editing Makefile to remove > the reference to it, I ran "make && make install". So far, fine. Then > I try the biggie "yum list updates": > > [root@osage emacs]# yum list updates > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ? > import yummain > ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/yummain.pyc > > Unfortunately, though I have many years experience as a software > developer, python is new to me. What does one do about magic numbers? Hi, Yum 2.0.1 is really quite old. Grab the latest daily release and build it: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/daily/2.0/yum-20031205.tar.gz -sv