Have newer python, but an app requires older python

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This is probably trivial issue to you

trying to isntall an app called "duplicity" from a rpm or via yum and it returns:

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Error: Package: duplicity-0.4.11-3.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
Installed: python-2.6.6-52.el6.x86_64 (@updates)
python(abi) = 2.6
Available: python-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64 (base)
python(abi) = 2.6
Error: Package: python-GnuPGInterface-0.3.2-2.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
Requires: python(abi) = 2.4
Installed: python-2.6.6-52.el6.x86_64 (@updates)
python(abi) = 2.6
Available: python-2.6.6-51.el6.x86_64 (base)
python(abi) = 2.6
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
I certainly dont want to downgrade my python. So my only option is to try --skip-broken?

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