How to install yum on RedHat Linux 7.3 (Valhalla)

Good site but does not resolve the error that I'm getting when executing the yum check-update command or any yum related command.

[root@tornado root]# rpm -Uvh yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:yum                    ########################################### [100%]
[root@tornado root]# yum check-update
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/yummain.pyc
[root@tornado root]#
[root@tornado root]#  yum-arch --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum-arch", line 22, in ?
    import pullheaders
ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/pullheaders.pyc
[root@tornado root]#

Yum is intalled thou but why its not executing have not Idea what is this extension for .pyc I think it has something to do with why this is not working. I would like to get this going as soon as possible any help is appreciated. Open in New Window

Hi Everyone,

I think the problem is with the Python version I'm using Python 2.2, has anyone have a binary package for the python version im running Python 2.2 .

I will highly appreciate you help

Thanks

Hi Guy's

I'm not trying to be funny or demanding may someone assist me please.
I have searched google and posted this problem on other sites but I'm not getting anything.

Please help me

Hi Gns,

Unfortunately we are running ibm websphere on this box on Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla).
This machine is not going anywhere, anytime soon as our client does not want this box upgraded but is running a lot of application on it.

I have a repository on my network for Redhat 7.3 downloading updates from dagwieers.com, which I setup and its working fine. All i need to do is to install yum on this box then download the updates from the repo below. Does this mean none of the expects have come accross the Python error above and resolved it for yum.

mrepo RPM Mirror on oak (ipaddress)
The subdirectories below are created and managed by mrepo. They contain RPM repositories for use with Smart, up2date, Apt and Yum, directories to allow for remote network installs, as well as ISO files for people to download and burn to disc.
 Name                    Last modified      Size  Description-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- centos4-i386/           20-Nov-2007 10:55    -   CentOS 4 for x86
 centos5-i386/           12-Dec-2007 13:20    -   CentOS 5 for x86
 livna-8-i386/           02-Dec-2007 00:09    -  
 rh73-i386/              22-Feb-2008 14:24    -   Red Hat Linux 7.3 for x86
 rhel4es-i386/           20-Nov-2007 10:58    -   Red Hat Enterprise Server 4 for x86
 rhel5es-i386/           26-Nov-2007 10:34    -   Red Hat Enterprise Server 5 for x86
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Hi Ramrom,

I have deleted the .pycs but how do I force a recompile of the source.

Thanks

I have removed the .pycs and did run yum it's not working.

[root@tornado yum]# ls
archwork.py         downloader.py  lilo.py       pullheaders.py   yummain.py
bootloadercfg.py    grubcfg.py     logger.py     serverStuff.py   yum_repo.py
checkbootloader.py  i18n.py        nevral.py     up2datetheft.py  yum_rpm.py
clientStuff.py      iutil.py       pkgaction.py  yum_conf.py
config.py           lilocfg.py     progress.py   yumlock.py
[root@tornado yum]# yum check-update
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
    import yummain
  File "/usr/lib/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
    import clientStuff
  File "/usr/lib/yum/clientStuff.py", line 27, in ?
    import archwork
  File "/usr/lib/yum/archwork.py", line 25, in ?
    import yum_rpm
  File "/usr/lib/yum/yum_rpm.py", line 18, in ?
    import rpm
ImportError: No module named rpm
[root@tornado yum]#