Accidentally uninstalled yum

skibler1223 · 02-17-2008, 05:14 PM

I got a little carried away in trying to get PHP and Apache compiled to work together. I was having huge problems with libxml2 config not being found.

I uninstalled libxml2 without checking dependencies and it dumped like 30 programs along the way including yum.

I tried to reinstall via an rpm package but it is saying this when I run it:

Code:

There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

   No module named yum

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:
2.4.3 (#1, Mar 14 2007, 18:51:08)
[GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)]

Will I be better off just re-installing the entire thing or what should I do?

unSpawn · 02-17-2008, 07:02 PM

If you are unsure what removing a package does next time try 'rpm --test -e packagename' before you erase it. If you erase it and are still unsure use the rollback function. (On CentOS-5) Yum requires packages: (coreutils), python, python-elementtree, python-sqlite, rpm, rpm-python, urlgrabber and yum-metadata-parser. Removing LibXML2 results in removing yum-metadata-parser so you could possibly have only one necessary package missing. If unsure check they're installed with 'rpm -q packagename', (download and) place all the RPM's you need in a dir and do 'rpm --test -i *.rpm'. It'll tell you if it thinks you missed a necessary package.

skibler1223 · 02-17-2008, 08:16 PM

Thanks a mil, I have been compiling...literally for the last 2 to 3 days now. I'm getting to the point where I'm turning to RPMs b/c when they do work its so much faster.

I actually just couldn't find the CentOS 5 repository (very easily) with all the RPMs. Once I found that I was good to go.

Got REAL quick at:

wget [PASTE URL IN] [ENTER]

lol to the point of almost calling Guinness to make a world record!

Thanks again!