RPM, yum, smart, up2date will not load

[Kam Leo]

On 8/1/05, Ausband, Jeff <JAusband at tele-optics.com> wrote:
> >> 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
> 

The DAG/DRIES smart package for FC4 was initially released with
channels pointing to FC3 repos.  Check the .channel files in
/etc/smart/channels and verify that the URLs are vaild.