Michael A. Peters wrote: > Looks to me like you have the rawhide python installed - and that's not > good on a FC3 system. > > Here's the gist of my problem: ======================================== Yesterday I ran a rather complicated yum install, for which I had to enablerepo=development , and today when I run "yum update" I get the error ========================================== [tim@william 2004]$ sudo yum update Traceback (most recent call last): ... File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 468, in http_response code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg, response.info() AttributeError: HTTPResponse instance has no attribute 'code' ========================================== I'm sure you are correct in your diagnosis - I have inadvertently installed an inappropriate version of python - but what can I do about it? - Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland