[root@localhost ubuntu]# yum There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cElementTree.so: 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: 2.3.4 (#1, Nov 4 2004, 14:13:38) [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq [root@localhost ubuntu]# rpm -q yum yum-2.4.3-1.c4 [root@localhost ubuntu]# rpm -q --requires yum-2.4.3-1.c4 /bin/bash /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /sbin/chkconfig /sbin/service /usr/bin/python config(yum) = 2.4.3-1.c4 coreutils libxml2-python python python-elementtree python-sqlite rpm >= 0:4.1.1 rpm-python rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 urlgrabber yumconf [root@localhost ubuntu]# rpm -q python python-2.3.4-14