Why does yum fail with 'Fatal Python error: pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than compile-time version Aborted (core dumped)'

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Issue

  • The yum command fails with the following message:
Fatal Python error: pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than compile-time version
Aborted (core dumped)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Multiple versions of libcurl package

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