On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > There is not other way to get python 2.4 than to get it by the > > development tree. I don't expect you manually did install it from > > sources or external ;) > > It seems to me, to sum uo, that I did nothing > that could be described as "running rawhide". > It appears that there must have been a (temporary?) glitch > in mirrorlist, or in the yum interpretation of mirrorlist. Are you sure this machine never ran rawhide? cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-devel.repo rpm -V fedora-release Have you ever done the following? yum --enablerepo=developemnt update > As far as I can see it is more or less impossible to downgrade python, > so I'll just leave things until the current version gets up to 2.3.4 . If its just 1 package - then you could download FC3 python.rpm and do: rpm --Uvh --oldpackage python.rpm Satish