dnf broken - now what??

[Rick Stevens]

On 10/19/2015 04:41 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
>
> On 10/19/2015 05:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 10/20/2015 07:27 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>   dnf
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>    File "/bin/dnf", line 35, in <module>
>>>      from dnf.cli import main
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/__init__.py", line 31, in
>>> <module>
>>>      import dnf.base
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 26, in
>>> <module>
>>>      from dnf.comps import CompsQuery
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/comps.py", line 29, in
>>> <module>
>>>      import dnf.util
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/util.py", line 31, in
>>> <module>
>>>      import librepo
>>>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/librepo/__init__.py",
>>> line 1001,
>>> in <module>
>>>      import librepo._librepo
>>> ImportError: libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such
>>> file or
>>> directory
>>>
>> No problem here on a fully updated F22 system.  You didn't mention
>> what you were running....
>>
>> But at the end we see "libidn.so.11: cannot open shared object file".
>> Is it really missing?
>>
>>   [egreshko at meimei ~]$ locate libidn.so.11
>> /usr/lib/libidn.so.11
>> /usr/lib/libidn.so.11.6.15
>> /usr/lib64/libidn.so.11
>> /usr/lib64/libidn.so.11.6.15
>>
>> The package libidn provides this....
>>
>>
> run
> sudo dnf install libidn-1.32-1.fc22.x86_64

The problem was dnf couldn't run because libidn wasn't there. :-)

Fortunately, he could download it from somewhere else and used rpm to
install it.

"It's like having a can with the opener inside." - James P. Hogan

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