dnf broken - now what??

[jd1008]

On 10/19/2015 05:47 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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
Yep - I assumed he could get it somehow since there is the live fc22 cd/dvd.