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[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:56:33PM +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> ImportError: libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> >>>
> 
> How do I proceed and move from this dead point???

Look at some other machine and check which package provides
libelf.so.1. 'locate' helps with that and once you have this
information then something like

    rpm -qf /usr/lib/libelf.so.1

will print what you need to know.  That happens to be
'elfutils-libelf'.  You can likely find out that even without using
some other machine as it is hard to believe that you managed to
force somehow a removal of 'elfutils-libelf'.  A long list of
packages depends on it.  Maybe a rerun of 'ldconfig' is all what you
need?

OTOH you seem to be bumping all that time in "adventures" of that
sort.  Maybe you should start with

      rpm -Va >& /var/tmp/system_check

and clean up things?  'man rpm' explains how to interpret what will
be shown.  Once you have 'yum' operational again then use
'package-cleanup' to get your system into some decent state.

If you got yourself into such state that even rpm and/or rpm2cpio
refuse to work then you can always unpack required packages in a
scratch directory on some other Linux installation ('man rpm2cpio')
and copy results into the right place.

   Michal