For an unrelated reason, I had to uninstall vsftpd from my CentOS 5.3 install.

When I went "yum install vsftpd.i386", I get this:

[root@76-240-25-136]# yum install vsftpd.i386 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
• base: centos.mirrors.tds.net
• updates: ftp.lug.udel.edu
• addons: mirror.cs.vt.edu
• extras: styx.biochem.wfubmc.edu

Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package vsftpd.i386 0:2.0.5-12.el5 set to be updated Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 145, in main (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 647, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 696, in resolveDeps CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing = self._resolveRequires(errors) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 779, in _resolveRequires thisneeds = self._checkInstall(txmbr) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 851, in _checkInstall provs = self.tsInfo.getProvides(*req) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 432, in getProvides result.update(self.getNewProvides(name, flag, version)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 414, in getNewProvides for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems(): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 300, in getProvides return self._computeAggregateDictResult("getProvides", name, flags, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult sackResult = apply(method, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 861, in getProvides return self._search("provides", name, flags, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 837, in _search for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 586, in searchFiles self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 470, in _sql_pkgKey2po pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey']) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 413, in _packageByKey po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 68, in __init__ self._read_db_obj(db_obj) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object

From what I can see, this looks like an error with Python 2.4, but I don't

know what to do Any help?

Thanks,

David