unbelievably stupid mistake - i broke /usr/lib need help
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Jan 5 20:24:48 UTC 2006
Alastair McKinley wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I made a really daft mistake and deleted a lot of files in /usr/lib. Im
> not sure how many I have deleted.
>
> I was trying to delete a linux rootfs on an SD and thought I was in
> /media/usbdisk/usr/lib, clearly I wasnt.
> You would think I should know better this is at least the third time I
> have done something like this.
>
> My laptop is still up and running, can anyone give me any ideas on a way
> to fix all my broken libraries?
>
> Can yum do it?
>
> Please help me!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alastair
>
If rpm is still working.
rpm -Va could be used to give you a list of damaged packages.
In your /var/cache/yum/{repo} you will have the updated rpms that you
could re-install many of the damaged packages with.
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