Re: ImportError: cannot import name plugins

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:50 -0700, Leslie Katz wrote:
> My head is spinning so much, I'm not sure anymore what I did, but I believe that I created from source rpms and then installed yum-3.0.4-1.noarch.rpm and yumupdatesd-3.0.4-1.noarch.rpm. Then, when I ran yum, I got the following output:
> 
> [leslie@localhost ~]$ /usr/bin/yum
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in ?
>     import yummain
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 24, in ?
>     from yum import plugins
> ImportError: cannot import name plugins
> [leslie@localhost ~]$
> 
> All of this is quite beyond me, but I did look at the FAQ and Google for the ImportError. The latter took me to one thread on this list, but it petered out without any resolution.
> 
> I'd be very grateful if anyone could explain to me how I go about trying to overcome the error.
> 

okay so let's take this from the top:

1. what distro
2. what ver of python?
3. what does 'rpm -q yum' return

-sv