On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 17:03 -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > Thanks Jeff, and the others who have responded to my query for help.. > What I did was I ran a query to see if BitTorrent was installed and with > that I was told to remove anything that was related to that in order to > re-install BitTorrent. > I was shown two lines that concerned BitTorrent and I deleted these > directories.. (rm -Rf /dev/???) !!!!! With that you removed all device files that the system had. I am surprised that it even operated/booted. Although /dev is recreated in the newer versions of Fedora when you boot, doing that rmdev will totally shut you down with many distributions/versions of Linux until you manually recreate the /dev entries for your hardware. Your choice to blindly follow instructions without knowing the consequences is the reason there are hundreds of thousands of viruses/trojans/worms on that other os (combined with its inherent insecure design) HTH. > Bingo. Now I no longer had Yum.. > > I will try and be more cautious to the future. > > Thanks again fellows for the help and kind direction... > > > > > At 01:50 PM 10/18/2006 -0500, you wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 22:09 -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > I seem to have lost my 'YUM'. I deleted some python files which must have > > > been apart of Yum or the other way around. > > > > > > How do I get my YUM back? Can I reinstall it from the iso disks or > > > should I do a search and find an rpm version out in the world somewhere? > > > > >This is a hard way to learn. > >IMHO, you should never delete files that you are not 100% certain of > >their purpose/usage. > > > >It is much better to do something like > > yum provides </path/to/file> > >then look at the output so you can tell what packages put the file > >there. > >You then need to try a "yum remove <package>" and see what other > >packages it may want to remove for dependencies so you have a chance to > >decide whether you really should delete it or not. > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Ted Gervais, > > > Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada > > > > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > --- > Ted Gervais, > Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada
