Hi All,

Hope all doing great!!!!

i have installed speedtest cli in cent os 5.6. for that i have upgraded python 2.4 to 2.7. Speed test cli is working fine now.. But yum stopped working. i hope yum breaks all the repositories.

So none of the yum command is working,

PFB error

[root@XXYYY ~]# yum update
-bash: yum: command not found
[root@XXYYY ~]#

Please help me on this.

Yum depends on python. You essentially broke python by manually upgrading it from 2.4 to 2.7. CentOS 5.6 is *VERY OLD*...so forcing this sort of thing isn't a good idea. Roll back whatever upgrade you did.

Before that, though...are you sure your PATH isn't corrupted??? Did you try just running /usr/bin/yum? Running "which yum", "locate yum", or even "find / -name yum", to see if it's still there??? What did you actually *DO* to 'upgrade' python?

No path is already corrupted, as i am new to Linux i have done it without getting suggestions,so guide me on this..when i do "which yum"

I am getting below erroe

[root@XXYYY ~]# which yum
/usr/bin/which: no yum in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/root/bin)
[root@XXYYY ~]#

Ok...and what about the OTHER commands you were given???? And if you're new to Linux, why are you using such an old system, and why are you manually upgrading things past what the package manager can do???

You were also asked about what you did to perform this upgrade, and haven't answered.

The requirement yum has is "python >= 2.4", so upgrading to python-2.7 should not have broken that. Of course if you did that "upgrade" by first removing python-2.4, then yum would also have been removed due to the dependency. (But then, how would you have installed python-2.7?)

Is yum still installed? What is the output from

I just joined in one company they have this Cent OS 5.6 as a server along with asterisk configuration, so i can't disturb that, even netstat commands are not working. So when i was checking yum upgrading i found these error.

i have installed python 2.7 only to get the speedtest cli.I have upgraded manually python 2.7 by using downloading rpm file for python 2.7.

Now speedtest is working fine. But none of the yum & netstat commands are working, So request you guys to help me.

I haved installed manually python 2.7 by downloading python 2.7 rpm file from internet.
I installed this in different directory opt.

i have no idea abt yum now. output for above command:

[root@XXYYY ~]# rpm -q yum
yum-3.2.22-33.el5.centos
[root@XXYYY ~]#

OK, it's still installed. /usr/bin/yum should be a Python script, with the first line specifying the interpreter:If that interpreter is missing, you get the same "No such file or directory" message as if /usr/bin/yum were missing.

Did you "install" python-2.7 by manually copying files into /opt, or did you try to use the rpm or yum commands to install it? What does "rpm -q python" report now?

Thanks for reply.

Installed manually by copying. i haven't used any yum command to install Python.

CentOS 5 is still alive, but only just! "End of life" will be 31 March 2017. It should not be used after support ends.

Manual installation of such a fundamental piece of software as Python is a very bad idea, as you have seen. For the question of safe sources, see
https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRe...s/Repositories

I'd start by going back to Python 2.4: download from either of these
https://pkgs.org/centos-5/centos-x86...86_64.rpm.html
https://pkgs.org/centos-5/centos-i38....i386.rpm.html

You should be able to runto verify that both packages are still intact. Changes to config files ("c" tag) are probably OK. Other changes, or complaints about missing files, are bad.

Result of this command 'rpm -V yum python' :

[root@XXYYY ~]# rpm -V yum python
missing /usr/bin/yum
S.5....T /usr/bin/pydoc
....L... /usr/bin/python
missing /usr/bin/python2
missing /usr/bin/python2.4
[root@XXYYY ~]#

Looks like you did quite a bit more than just copy files to /opt. Your python-2.4 and yum installations are damaged and need to be reinstalled. You will need to download those RPMs and manually reinstall them with "rpm -i". You should be able to find the Centos 5.6 versions of those packages at vault.centos.org.

Good lessons here for new people.
In general, do not install new versions of critical software outside of the versions available FOR your release outside of the normal automated tools/repositories.
If you must, compile or install a) from sources, b) in a different tree, and c) never overwrite or corrupt the existing software.

I compile and install latest releases that have known incompatibilities for more advanced options. I am VERY careful where I install and configure those, and what ports and resources they use. I am this careful because I have had DECADES of experiences breaking critical systems, and having to fix them. It can be fun, but more often is not.

Thank you i will try the above steps.