On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:32 -0400, Shari Rolnick wrote: > Sorry if this comes through twice . . . I don't think I sent it from > the right address the first time. > > I tried to install Yum by downloading the file yum-2.4.0.tar.gz and > doing a make/make install. When I try to use it, I get the following > error: > > [root@localhost yum-2.4.0]# yum > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > dynamic module does not define init function (initlibxml2) > > Please install a package which provides this module, or > verify that the module is installed correctly. > > It's possible that the above module doesn't match the > current version of Python, which is: > 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29) > [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] what distro are you using this on? I've never seen the above module error before. > > If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please send this > message to <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. > > I also tried installing Yum using the RPM. From that installation, I > get the following errors: that's a Source RPM, not a binary rpm. -sv