Hi,

i am using RHEL 4.0 ES

i want to reinstall all software + kernal from distribution pack, because i think some of software get corrupted. like yum/up2date throwing library error.
so i want to reinstall them from pack.

what option to do same direct from CD.

Thanks

Use rpm, please read: man rpm
Or from the online manuals available: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

Can you post the output of yum update?

When use "yum update"

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
import yummain
File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
import yumcomps
File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ?
import comps
File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ?
import libxml2
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI


when run up2date command
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 33, in ?
from up2date_client import up2date
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 27, in ?
from up2date_client import depSolver
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/depSolver.py", line 11, in ?
import packageList
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 20, in ?
import up2dateComps
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateComps.py", line 9, in ?
from rhpl import comps
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 5, in ?
import libxml2
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI

Which versions of yum, python-urlgrabber, python-elementtree, python-sqlite and sqlite are installed?? Which version of up2date is installed?

rpm -qa --qf="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}\n" 'python*' sqlite up2date yum | sort

Hopefully the ones from either Dag Wieers site( http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ ) or from the CentOS4 site as per;

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packag...ment/YumOnRHEL

output of above command:
python-2.3.4-14.1.i386
python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386
python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.2.el4.rf.noarch
up2date-4.4.69-25.i386

Follow the advice here to install/ use yum;

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packag...ment/YumOnRHEL

FYI: RHEL4 is not yum enabled and since you have an out of date version of up2date installed with newer versions of the other listed packages, this is the cause of the errors.