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[peby@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Guys,

I would like to use yum on 11.1 - specifically yum-utils and the ability
to use yum localinstall, which I find extremely handy and which zypper
does not support.

(Yes, I know "You should just use zypper!" and "smart is better" and "why
would you ever want to use yum on Suse?" and all those wonder things, but
the bottom line is that there is still no way for zypper to install a
local rpm and handle the dependencies from the repos. Plus, I like yum.)

yum is not in 11.1 repo, and seems to have been removed due to python
being updated to 2.6 which does not play well with yum.

You can still get yum from the 11.0 repo, but there are the below issues
trying to get it to work with python

11.0 repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/suse/i586/yum-3.2.14-15.1.i586.rpm

Errors when installing as it needs Python < 2.4 and 2.6 is installed with
Suse 11.1

I tried a later version of Yum (3.2.22), for RHEL 5.0 from Pbone, but it
still required Python < 2.4 and had other dependency isssue as well.

No problem, let's just have both Python 2.4 and 2.6 installed right?

I downloaded Python and built Python 2.4 from

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.6/
./configure
./make

I normally try to run checkinstall to make an rpm rather than 'make
install' - but this had a bug too, it just need a directory to be manually
created.
(What the heck is up with checkinstall having these issues lately?)

mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/python2.4/config
checkinstall

You now have a Python 2.4 RPM - yeah! And it looks good:
Callandor:~ # rpm -qpl Python-2.4.6-1.i386.rpm | less

Callandor:~ # rpm -Uvh yum-3.2.14-15.1.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        python-gpgme is needed by yum-3.2.14-15.1.i586
        python < 2.6 is needed by yum-3.2.14-15.1.i586


I installed python-gpgme which resolved that dependency and then just
forced the install as Python 2.4 exists:

rpm -ivh --nodeps yum-3.2.14-15.1.i586.rpm

Callandor:~ #ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python2.4
Callandor:~ # python -V
Python 2.4.6
Callandor:~ # python2.6 -V
Python 2.6

I edited /usr/bin/yum to specify using 2.4.6, which it is.

However, yum is still not working with python:

Callandor:~ # yum
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:
2.4.6 (#1, Apr 25 2009, 08:25:54)
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

I found this there, but honestly it is not too helpful
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq#Q7

I tried importing yum in python, no errors but the same issue exists.

Any suggestions on how to finish this off and get yum working on 11.1?

Thanks!

Pete Eby

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