[CALUG] FC5 Help

[Mark Wiater]

Jason,

can you not boot with a rescue CD ( i think fedora's comes with one,
used to i think), chroot to wherever you mount your current
installation and then install the requisite packages using the CD's
environment?

Mark

Jason C. Miller wrote:
> I need help recovering from my complete and total idiocy.  
> 
> I'm running the latest FC5.  I had to downgrade my compilers to match 
> those of the development team I'm working with.  I thought I'd be slick 
> and write a long command line to find the current appropriate RPMs and 
> uninstall them.  Of course, my coolness ended up uninstalling libgcc and a 
> couple others as well.  Go figure.  That's just how cool I am. 
> 
> I can't download the source since I have no functional compilers and 'rpm' 
> requires three uninstalled libraries.  Add to that the fact that I'm 
> the ONLY one running FC5 (or FC anything for that matter).
> 
> I'm in a state at the moment where I don't dare turn my machine off and 
> am somewhat with a lack of options.  
> 
> Any suggestions, anyone?  Are these downloadable as unpackaged files 
> anywhere?
> 
> I'm REALLY hoping that someone will know of a solution for this catch-22
> because I would really feel idiotic asking someone to e-mail me their 
> libpopt.so.0, libstdc++.so.6, and libgcc_s.so.1 files.
> 
> ARG!!
> 
> (Yet another reminder that some simple lessons are never really truly 
> learned)
>