unbelievably stupid mistake - i broke /usr/lib need help

[Paul Lemmons]

This is a tough one. I am assuming you have no backup...

Were this to happen to me I would probably go to another box and
download a trial of VmWare. I would then install FC4 and apply
maintenance and install of the software that I had installed. I would
then copy /usr/lib over to the broken box.

Next I would probably realize that not everything was there and what was
there was not exactly what was there to start with. I would then decide
whether or not I wanted to spend the next few months dinking with it or
if it was time to backup all of my personal data, format and start
over... I would probably then start over...

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 19:00 +0000, 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
> 
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