Application can't find python library installed as rpm

Question

I have a python application that\'s run inside a virtualenv on CentOS. This application needs a python library that\'s distributed and installed as an rpm. When the application

Answer 1

It also might be a dependency problem. Try to reinstall the RPM using yum instead of rpm:

yum -y reinstall /path/to/your/file.rpm

Answer 2

By default virtual environments don't access modules in site-packages. You either need to allow such access (toggleglobalsitepackages in virtualenvwrapper) or recreate you virtualenv allowing such access with option --system-site-packages.