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 -- [email protected] mailing list
