[CALUG] FC5 Help

[junekis at comcast.net]

I can get you a set of FC5 install CDs - if you give me a snail-mail address

(if you're in between beltsville and ellicott city, I can drop them off - I'll be driving that route this evening
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jason C. Miller" <jason.c.miller at gmail.com>
> Unfortunately, I'm not at the same site where I did the install and thus 
> do not have the CDs with me.  And, of course, I have the images but my 
> burner software requires one of the libraries.  Go figure.  I'm currently 
> looking to see if I can sucker someone else into burning it for me. 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Eric Gosnell wrote:
> 
> > Are you not able to get these files off of your install CD's?  I have  
> > FC CDs, but I don't know if I am running FC5 or FC6...  (I have kernel  
> > 2.6.16.)
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting "Jason C. Miller" <jason.c.miller at gmail.com>:
> > 
> > > 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)
> > >
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