On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:51:51 -0500 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 Thanks for the tip. The daily build is better. David P.S. Will minor report new problem in new thread :-)