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

[Kam Leo]

On 1/5/06, Alastair McKinley <amckinley03 at qub.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >Alastair McKinley wrote:
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> >
> >Peter Skensved wrote:
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> >  I would start by backing up /root, /boot, /etc and /var
> >plus anything installed in /usr/local and /home . Next get a list of
> >all installed RPMs ( rpm -qa | sort  or  rpm -a --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort )
> >
> >
> >         and save them somewhere. With that information you can
> >         probably reconstruct your laptop if everything fails ( this
> >         assumes you always install binaries
> >
> >from RPM files and stuff from random tar files in /usr/local )
> >
> > Once you have done that run  rpm -Va  and save the output. This
> >will give you a list of missing files. Try installing the missing
> >ones with  rpm -Uv --force  . If that works then heck for .rpmnew files
> >and try reconstructing any munged configuration files.
> >
> >
> >
> >         I've successfully done the above with a really clobbered file
> >         system on a laptop.
> >
> >                                                  peter
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> >Peter Skensved                          Email : peter SNO Phy QueensU CA
> >Dept. of Physics,
> >Queen's University,
> >Kingston, Ontario,
> >Canada
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi Peter,
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> >
> >
> >     Thanks for your advice. I managed to install enough libraries
> >     manually to get rpm up and running again. What will the rpm -Uv
> >     --force command actually do?
> >
> Patrick Boutilier wrote:
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> > Reinstall the RPM (files as well) even though the RPM is already
> > installed according to the RPM database.
>
>
> Can yum do something similar and go and get the packages from the repos?
>

Install apt-get.

> Alastair
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