hi.. i'm trying to get yum up/running.. i initially had FC3. everything was working. an attempt was made to go to FC4. most things appeared to look ok. i quickly realized that something screwed up, when i saw that the rpm db was not functioning. i rebuilt/repaired that. i then realized that yum is not working... i've tried to build from source yum 2.4.2/2.4.3 with the same error... i have... There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named cElementTree 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: 2.4.3 (#1, Jun 13 2006, 16:41:18) [GCC 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq my python files are... [root@lserver5 noarch]# rpm -qa py* pyOpenSSL-0.6-1.p24.4.1 pyorbit-2.0.1-1 pyparted-1.6.9-3 python-2.4.3-8.FC4 python-elementtree-1.2.6-6.2.el4.rf pygtk2-2.4.1-fc3.1 python-urlgrabber-2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf pyxf86config-0.3.19-1 python-devel-2.4.3-8.FC4 pygtk2-libglade-2.4.1-fc3.1 python-sqlite-1.1.6-1 i know this can work as i have a system that was a fresh install to FC4 that has yum/pyhton working correctyl!! any thoughts on what should be done... should i try to completely remove python... this is kind of strange... thanks