Re: Script to diagnose "no module named yum"

MikeW wrote:
> Since this is still happening, and is a FAQ but is not addressed
> on the Yum FAQ page, I would be interested if anyone has a script
> which examines current settings to determine *why* in any instance
> this error can still occur.
>
> >From much searching it looks as if it's a broken/inconsistent Python
> installation, but Python itself does not appear to provide the means
> to diagnose or fix this. (FWIW I think it should !)
>
> It's not sufficient (as many of the "answers" suggest) to reinstall
> from source or from RPM - or from Synaptic.
> This does not seem to fix whatever it is that is out of alignment,
> since I have reinstalled Python, pygtk and yum from source
> without any improvement.
>
> I would be very grateful if the yum shell script would be able
> to take a more proactive approach to finding out what it
> needed and what was missing - maybe looking in both
> /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib for example, or finding multiple
> Python installations and behaving in a sensible way.
>
> (I once used a LAMP-package installer which did a very good job of
> telling you which bits were working and what seemed incorrect)
>
> I realise that if everything is set up correctly, "things just work"
> but especially if you are installing packages and upgrades,
> that might not be the actual situation.
>
> Many thanks,
> MikeW
>
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the yum module is installed into python's site lib dir.
python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print 
get_python_lib()"
and it 'import yum' is failing there is something rotten in your python 
setup.
And it is not yum there shall fix your python installation

Tim