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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:07:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610191707.33886.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5d1857a0610181307q40e10dd0j21278fbfbb1f2e30@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 22:07, Stuart Howard wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> In advance I admit I have done a dumb! thing [by accident] I have
> managed to delete most of /usr/lib/ and my backup does not seem to be
> wholesome .
> Could someone suggest a method for rebuilding the libraries?
> I was thinking about a liveCD plus chroot but I would like some
> advice before i attempt it and waste a day.

Ouch.

Did you nuke python as well? If so, you are in deep shit and I would 
suggest you get some kind soul to tar.gz a working python for you that 
you can untar on your machine. You basically need a toolchain, portage, 
python and maybe a few other things installed and working so you can

emerge -e world

and fix everything in one 48 hour process. I wouldn't even try identify 
what is missing and what isn't, my system lists 35000+ files 
in /usr/lib, so rebuilding world is probably the least painful fix

alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-19 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 20:07 [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib Stuart Howard
2006-10-19 15:07 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-19 15:37 ` Mark
2006-10-19 19:29   ` Nico Schümann
2006-10-19 20:41     ` Stuart Howard
2006-10-20  2:11       ` Philip Webb
2006-10-20 13:36         ` Alan McKinnon

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