unbelievably stupid mistake - i broke /usr/lib need help

[Robin Laing]

Alastair McKinley wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I made a really daft mistake and deleted a lot of files in /usr/lib.  Im 
> not sure how many I have deleted.
> 
> I was trying to delete a linux rootfs on an SD and thought I was in 
> /media/usbdisk/usr/lib, clearly I wasnt.
> You would think I should know better this is at least the third time I 
> have done something like this.
> 
> My laptop is still up and running, can anyone give me any ideas on a way 
> to fix all my broken libraries?
> 
> Can yum do it?
> 
> Please help me!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alastair
> 

If rpm is still working.

rpm -Va could be used to give you a list of damaged packages.

In your /var/cache/yum/{repo} you will have the updated rpms that you 
could re-install many of the damaged packages with.