On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:17 -0400, Steven Smith wrote: > Hello, > I am a newbie to linux trying to get Yum to work on my redhat > enterprise Linux ES 3 system. I download yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm and > installed it using the command 'rpm -Uvh yum-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm'. > The output from the rpm command looked like it completed successfully. > I edited the yum.conf file to add the following lines > [xcyb-stable] > name=Fedora Core 3 ( xcyborg / stable ) > baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/3/stable/ > > After reading the yum.conf man file I added enabled=1 to the yum.conf file. rhel3 doesn't have python 2.3 - which the yum 2.2.0 noarch rpm was built for. You need to rebuild the src.rpm for rhel3 and the problem will go away. -sv
