well, I suppose problem really could be in removing kerberos libs. yum is not directly depending on it, but openssl can be. check ldd /lib/libssl.so.X bruce p??e v Ne 24. 04. 2005 v 16:16 -0700: > > [root@lserver2 rpm]# python > Python 2.4.1 (#1, Apr 6 2005, 14:01:51) > [GCC 4.0.0 20050405 (Red Hat 4.0.0-0.40)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > i thought that i might have somehow deleted/removed a file from the > yum > package. i reinstalled using rpm -ivh/-uvh from the FC3 rpm > repositories. > > when i do rpm -q, i get the correct yum version. > > so, any ideas as to what i've screwed up here... >