Accidentally removed important packages

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

a hacker never reinstall a linux system

I am running fedora core  7 and fedora 8 on my machines

and I am upgrading it since fedora core 1


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Itamar Reis Peixoto

e-mail/msn: itamar at ispbrasil.com.br
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Larsen" <k5di at zianet.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Accidentally removed important packages


> pete at safeplace.net wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> I know that I should have been more careful, but I don't
>> know what to do now.
>>
>> I ran into a version conflict over libstdc++ where I needed to downgrade
>> to an older version.
>>
>> When I removed the package (carelessly, I know) it removed some 311
>> dependencies including:
>>
>> grub
>> initscripts
>> hal
>> passwd
>> rpm
>> yum
>>
>> and a bunch of other really important things.
>>
>> Is there any way to salvage this using the rescue CD, or something?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>    Boy! You really did it. Of course you can't boot up your ruined system. 
> Here is what I would do if faced with it. With RESCUE I would make a new 
> partition with fdisk and then mkfs.ext3 and then mount both this and your 
> old system. You will need to make 2 places to mount them to.
>
>    Now use #cp -a /home /where the partition is mounted. I did this on 
> mine and so far 3 months it is perfect. Of course if you already did this 
> your ahead of the game.
>
>    Now I would use the F7 DVD and upgrade the broken with a new one but be 
> careful not to  delete the old system. With lock it will all come out 
> good.
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> Linux User
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