Python library conflict with lower version

Question

I am trying to reinstall yum in CentOS. Because I made some mistake by removing python.

so I got error as follows
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

   No module named rpm

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, Nov 11 2010, 13:34:43) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to 
the yum faq at:
  http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

And then I followed some tutorial from http://www.electrictoolbox.com/install-yum-with-rpm-on-centos/ But I got an error while trying to install python libs

error: Failed dependencies:
    python < 2.4.3-32.el5 conflicts with python-libs-2.4.3-43.el5.i386

How can I fix this?

Edit

rpm -qa|grep python
python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5
python-2.4.3-27.el5_5.3
libselinux-python-1.33.4-5.5.el5
gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5
python-elementtree-1.2.6-5
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5
audit-libs-python-1.7.17-3.el5
libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.el5_5.1
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1

Answer 1

I checked on the web, and (on the assumption that you are using Centos 5.5, which you have not confirmed), 2.4.3-32 corresponds to 5.5, but 2.4.3-43 corresponds to 5.6.

You presumably want to update to 5.6. So get python 2.4.3-43 and upgrade to that using rpm -Uvh. This link will probably work. You can use a direct link if you want. If that works, try installing python-libs as you did earlier.

Answer 2

Using just RPM, remove the old libraries and reinstall all the Python 2.4 interpreter and libraries, including the Python rpm module.