yum failure - how to fix?

[Mark Jaffe]

I wanted to get a java installed, so I tried to do it via yum. But yum itself is messed up, this is what I got when I tried to update it:

 yum upgrade
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Damaged Header /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/mod_ssl-1-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "yummain.py", line 159, in main
  File "clientStuff.py", line 690, in download_headers
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/updates/headers/mod_ssl-1-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr'

What does this mean and how to fix it?

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