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[Antonio M]

2009/1/24 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> After today's updates I decided to revert back but when I use yum or yumex I get
>
> yum update all
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>
>   libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> 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:
> 2.6 (r26:66714, Jan 16 2009, 10:38:26)
> [GCC 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)]
>
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> the yum faq at:
>  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
>
> How do I recover if neither yum or yumex are working?? and what shall
> I have to install??????
>
>
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
>

 python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jan 16 2009, 10:38:26)
[GCC 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    import rpm
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from _rpm import *
ImportError: libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
>>>

How do I proceed and move from this dead point???
-- 
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag