On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:00:13PM -0600, Michael Simpson enlightened us: > Since updating to Fedora Core 4 I haven't been able to get yum to work. > When I try to run yum update I get the following message: > > > *[root@sight etc]# yum update > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:* > > * No module named rpm* > > *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)]* > > In python this is the error I get when I try to import yum & rpm > > *[root@insight etc]# python > Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29) > [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import yum > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "__init__.py", line 21, in ? > ImportError: No module named rpm > >>> import rpm > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > ImportError: No module named rpm > * > > This is what I have: > > *[root@sight etc]# rpm -q python > python-2.4.1-2 > [root@sight etc]# rpm -q rpm > rpm-4.4.2-15.1_58.rhfc2.at > [root@sight etc]# rpm -q yum > yum-2.4.1-1.fc4* > > I'm fairly new to linux, can anyone help me? > Make sure the rpm-python package is installed. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
