Laszlo, you can probably just rpm -Uvh --force the rpm and it will work. If not you might need to just delete the installed pyc files, then next run of virt-install will just regenerate them. The actual code doesn't have any hard dep on a newer python version.

Unfortunately, it didn't work.

I tried "rpm -Uvh --force" first, but it kept complaining about "python(abi) = 2.7". Then I also added --nodeps (which allowed rpm to install the package), plus I removed all pyc and pyo files under:

- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtconv
- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtconv/parsers
- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst

When I start virt-install, it says:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 33, in <module>
        import virtinst
    ImportError: No module named virtinst

python-2.6 most probably doesn't look for the required files under /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages. Can we change that with an environment variable? (I really don't want to move around or symlink files at this point.) Thanks.

> 
> python-2.6 most probably doesn't look for the required files under
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages. Can we change that with an environment
> variable? (I really don't want to move around or symlink files at this point.)
> Thanks.

For reference, you can see the system python path with

  python -c 'import sys; print sys.path'

You can alter the python path like

  PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages python -c 'import virtinst'

Regarding this bug though, it's pretty late in the cycle to backport what is essentially a new feature. Wouldn't be impossible though provided RHEL process isn't prohibitive, dallan what do you think?

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