/var/lib

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Patrick Dupre
<Patrick.Dupre at univ-littoral.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I made a BIG mistake,
> I removed /var/lib.
>
> How can I reinstall it?

I don't think there is any fool proof way but it may be technically possible...

I'm thinking you would need, at a minimum, a list of all the packages
you had installed that put files in /var/lib, then you would have to
reinstall them, from a live CD or USB, etc, but set the root to your
volume ( see yum --installroot ). You can try a chroot but with
/var/lib being gone I'm not sure it would work.

Richard