libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

I am using Centos in which i had removed libxml2 accidentally now it was showing the folling error as follows

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

libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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, Jun 18 2012, 08:55:31)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)]

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

Answer 1

You need to reinstall the libxml2 package. Since yum is currently broken on your system, you will need to obtain the libxml2 package by another means, such as using yumdownloader on another (working) system or by visiting your repositories website or from one of the CentOS mirrors. For example here is a link to the CentOS5.9 libxml2 rpm for i386 .