Accidentally clobbered zlib RPM, not rpm won't work

STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) stymar at lucent.com
Wed Jan 11 13:59:52 UTC 2006


> 
> 
> Well, I was trying to back out some of the packages that got 
> accidentally
> sucked down by yum from ATrpms.  In the process of "cleaning up",
> the RPM for zlib got nuked.
> 
> No various things including rpm and wget won't work.
> 
> I thought that yum would have left the previous rpm versions in place,
> but it doesn't seem to have.  Oops.
> 
> What's the work-around?
> 
> Thanks,
Write down the name of the missing libraries as reported by RPM
and WGET.  Boot rescue mode from the installation CD.  You should
be able to find the missing libraries and copy them accross manually.
Boot normally, then re-get the package and install the missing packages
via RPM.

Bob Styma




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