>> I installed smart, and done a smart upgrade. It downloaded all of the >> files and installed up to gnome-games and locked up on me. After >> restart I get: >> >> "error: 'rpm' python module is not available" >> >> Now I cannot use Yum, Smart and Up2date. >> >> Any suggestions? >Ouch! I'd try ># rpm -Uvh --force <URL_or_path>/rpm-python-4.4.1-22.i386.rpm >May have to add other rpm-*.rpm packages depending on what got clobbered. >Phil Thanks for the help and sorry about the newbie error. I've tried to force the upgrade of the rpm files but I can't get RPM to even start I get: Rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libbeecrypt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such files or directory. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Jeff