title: mod_python on CentOS under httpd and hsphere
body: <p>I have asked our hosting provider to add mod_python to our httpd server.  The server appears to be in an hsphere cluster and they appear to use yum to administer it.  He is reporting some dependencies missing and I do't quite understand how that could have come about.</p>
  
  <p>versions (this is as much as I have been given):
  CentOS 5
  apache - 2 (but he's not sure about the exact version)
  mod_python - 3.3.1
  numpy - 1.1.1
  scipy - 0.6.0
  yum - 3.2.8
  hsphere - 3.1 patch 1</p>
  
  <p>The error he is reporting is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>yum install mod_python
  ...
  Package mod_python.i386 0:3.2.8-3.1 set to be updated
  Processing Dependency: httpd &gt;- 2.0.40 for package: mod_python
  Processing Dependency: httpd-mmn = 20051115 for package: mod_python
  Finished Dependency Resolution
  Error: Missing Dependency: httpd &gt;= 2.0.40 is needed by package mod_python
  Error: Missing Dependency: httpd-mmn = 20051115 is needed by package mod_python
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Not being a UNIX admin I only have a naive guess about this, but the message would seem to suggest that there is a version mismatch between httpd and mod_python rather than the dependencies being missing completely.  </p>
  
  <p>So my question is, what should I ask/tell the Administrator to do?</p>
  
  <p>Is there something obviously wrong with the combination of components above?</p>