error using yum as package-installer

[saurabh23]

Hi,

I've opensuse 12.1 installed on my system.
I want to use yum for installing packages so i install yum on it, make some changes in "/etc/yum/yum.conf" file.

but while doing 'yum update' , its giving the following error:

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base | 1.6 kB 00:00
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1522, in _progress_update
if self._over_max_size(cur=self._amount_read-self._reget_length):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1539, in _over_max_size
if cur > max_size + max_size*.10:
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1522, in _progress_update
if self._over_max_size(cur=self._amount_read-self._reget_length):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1539, in _over_max_size
if cur > max_size + max_size*.10:
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'

Current download cancelled, interrupt (ctrl-c) again within two seconds
to exit.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1522, in _progress_update
if self._over_max_size(cur=self._amount_read-self._reget_length):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1539, in _over_max_size
if cur > max_size + max_size*.10:
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'float'

Exiting on user cancel
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Can anyone please help me on this...
Thanks.

[saurabh23]

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