On 10/12/05, Venu Madhav Kailasa <vmkailasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yum 2.4.0 installation was fine from the tarball. I heartily disagree. Maybe you could try installing from RPM? Or maybe your distro provides a yum package. > When I enter yum at the > the command line, I get the error "cannot import name Errors". I tried the > following without errors: > > $ python > Python 2.2.3 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:20:51) > [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import yum > >>> import Errors > >>> > > Am I missing something when I run yum from command line? > It would have helped to know what the exact error was that you got, but I would recommend getting a yum package from your distribution and (failing that) rebuilding the SRPM and installing that. It seems like you have RHEL3 - these packages from DAG will probably work: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/yum/ Regards, Greg