YUM Install: RE: Red Hat EL4 - Expired Subscription - How to update

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:30 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> For that mater how can I get yum installed?  I downloaded yum 2.6
> source did make make install and it seemed to go OK, but I get the
> following error:
>  
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>  
>    cannot import name Errors
>  
> 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:
> 2.3.4 (#1, Sep 26 2006, 17:25:54)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)]
>  
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> the yum faq at:
>   http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> 
> According to what I can see, it is the correct version of python for this version of yum.
> 
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I think you're barking up the wrong tree...

go here...
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4/os/i386/
or any other centos mirror...

get the RPM-GPG-KEY file 
then go into the CentOS folder and get the rest of the rpms listed on
that fixlinux site (this directory is the current versions which are
much newer than the ones listed from the 2006 fixlinux article)

download them all.

install all the rpms at once... i.e.

rpm -Uvh *rpm

and you should be good to go

Craig