[libvirt-users] problem with dependencies

hello i have been having trouble installing libvirt i installed kvm-kmod on rhel 5.4 kernel 2.6.18 without issues using an rpm from the redhat website after installation i tested it by creating an img file with qemu image and went ahead to install libvirt and libvirt-python for virtmanager however during installation of libvirt i get the following error: failed dependencies /usr/bin/qemu-img since qemu-img is in /usr/local/kvm/bin on my system i tried adding it to $PATH, symlinking the file and even copying the binery to /usr/bin but to no use compilation from source seemed to go fine but after that libvirt-python could still not find libvirt is there any solution to this issue? , i would imagine it is a known one thanks in advance matan