On 22 April 2010 01:40, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:51:49 +0530, anees wrote: > >> I am using fedora 12.I installed many applications using the command 'yum'.I >> tried to remove and reinstall flash plugin using >> >> su -c 'yum remove flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \ >> nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 \ >> libcurl.i686' >> Now i am not able to install anything because commands 'yum' and 'rpm' are lost >> >> when i type yum in terminal 'command not found' is the reply >> >> PLEASE HELP ME > > You should not have answered 'y'es when Yum showed you the list of > packages it would remove and asked you for confirmation. > > "yum remove ..." is not the opposite of "yum install ...". If you ask > Yum to remove a library package, it will remove all other packages which > depend on that library. You should have been more careful. > Reinstalling packages is overrated anyway. There are too many users who > reinstall packages without it being necessary. > > You will need to boot a rescue disc and restore at least the "rpm" package > or its files before you could install packages again. > Just out of curiosity, how would one do that without any of the package management tools available? Is it with a separate instance of rpm/yum that is on the rescue disc? But aren't packages like yum and rpm not relocatable? Thanks for any clarifications. > [Btw, are you sure about the above command? If your machine really > is x86_64, I don't see how that command would remove "yum" and "rpm" > as dependencies of the packages you specified.] The output of "locate yum rpm |grep bin" would be helpful here. > -- -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
