I received the following error trying to install VMWare Server on Fedora 9 64bit using the file "VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.x86_64.rpm" downloaded from VMWare.

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
Error Value: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getProvides'
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/install-files.py , line 20, in <module>
    backend.install_files(trusted, files_to_inst)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py , line 1033, in install_files
    self._runYumTransaction()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py , line 1121, in _runYumTransaction
    rc,msgs =  self.yumbase.buildTransaction()
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py , line 641, in buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py , line 688, in resolveDeps
    CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing = self._resolveRequires(errors)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py , line 771, in _resolveRequires
    thisneeds = self._checkInstall(txmbr)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py , line 843, in _checkInstall
    provs = self.tsInfo.getProvides(*req)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py , line 431, in getProvides
    result = self.getOldProvides(name, flag, version)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py , line 424, in getOldProvides
    for pkg, hits in self.rpmdb.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems():