Yum install error

[ne011]

i was trying to install yum , it successfully installed but when i run yum it said the following >>>>

-bash: /usr/bin/yum: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

but i have python 2.5 installed

Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Feb  2 2010, 20:13:22)
[GCC 4.1.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

is there anyone could help me for this problem ...


Thank you in advance

[coopstah13]

What are you trying to install yum on and how did you install it?
What distro are you using?

[scathefire]

is it looking in the right location for python? does the file actually reside in /usr/bin ?

which python

if not create a sym link to that location

[ne011]

Sorry for late reply ,my distro is backtrack3 ,i finally edited the yum file location from /usr/bin/ to /usr/bin/python2.5 and it works now ,but again i got one error telling

bt ~ # yum
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
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:
2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  4 2007, 16:52:23)
[GCC 4.1.2]

[scathefire]

backtrack? i believe that is like slax. not sure if they even use yum to do updating or not. maybe you should try this:

Backtrack 3 -- how do I update it? - Topic Powered by Social Strata

[ne011]

i will try to do that and let you know ,

[ne011]

i finally install swaret now ,was trying to install pidgin 2.6

bcoz i removed the old version .. ,i did (--upgrade -a )with swaret for the packages , and it updated all the packages from the slackware ftp server

but i cud not figure out the how to install the pidgin latest version wit swaret .

i tried swaret --install pidgin -a ,not working yet

bt swaret # swaret --install pidgin -a
swaret 1.6.3-2

Listing available Packages matching Keyword: pidgin...

No available Packages found matching Keyword: pidgin!

can u help me please ..

Thanks in advance..