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-bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or director

Yum not work in my os ( Centos 5 )
Please help me

# yum
-bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Do you have python installed?

Welcome to LQ.

You may have to reinstall python manually.
Yum and all the "system-config-" applications depend on python.

32bits http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.8/...6.el5.i386.rpm
> python-2.4.3-46.el5.i386.rpm

64bits http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.8/...el5.x86_64.rpm
> python-2.4.3-46.el5.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -Uvh --force python-2.4.3-46.el5.<arch>.rpm

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Originally Posted by knudfl (Post 4624243)

Thank you

PHP Code:




# rpm -Uvh yum-*.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%] 
        package yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-21.el5.centos.noarch is already installed 
        package yum-3.2.22-39.el5.centos.noarch is already installed 
[root@server2 ~]# yum -y update 
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> 
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> 
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] 
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 
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, Feb 22 2012, 16:06:13) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] 
 
If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to 
the yum faq at: 
  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

irlogo

WHAT is it you are doing ?
your first post mentioned a python problem
CentOS REQUIRES the version of python in the CentOS update repo
yum & Gnome DEPEND on that specific version

if you manually change the OLDER version of python you WILL mess up Cent5

you were instructed to MANUALLY force the install of the correct python rpm

you then post something on REINSTALLING "yum" and "fastestmirror" from a manually downloaded rpm

yum was NOT the problem python is

WHAT is going on here ???

you did not fix the python problem

The rpm option "--force" must be used, if you want to repair / replace
a package with rpm.

'man rpm' : --force : Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles

I.e. # rpm -Uvh --force yum-*.rpm

Any of these installed packages (yum dependencies) can stop yum,
if they have missing files, or have corrupt files : python,
rpm, yum-fastestmirror, python-urlgrabber, yum-metadata-parser,
python-elementtree, python-sqlite, python-iniparse, rpm-python.

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