On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:38:06PM +0100, John Moore alleged: > At 10:35 06/06/2003 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > ok could you run rpm -q rpm-python > > > >If rpm-python is not installed then you will definitely need to install > >it. > > That was it! 'rpm-python' was not installed. A quick 'urpmi rpm-python' and > it now seems I can use yum. Thanks! It seems Mandrake's yum rpm is missing the requirement on rpm-python. I sent a note to the Mandrake yum rpm maintainer.