On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:24:42PM +0100, Paul wrote: > When I try to install something all I get it that libelf is missing. > I've downloaded the rpms from the fedora ftp site, but can't seem to > open them with archive manager. Probably because libelf is missing. > How can I extract the wholesome goodness from the rpms to repair this > problem (I'm just going to pop the libs into whereever they should be > and run ldconfig)? rpm2cpio Or what I normally do when I do this (and playing with disk driver debugging is a good way to do it) is to take another box with the same FC release and do mount USB stick cp missing libraries from /lib /usr/lib .. umount USB stick mount on broken box export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/myusbstick:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or add the path to /etc/ld.so.preload) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list