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usr/bin problem
erosnemesis:
when i was installing mozilla 1.4 it said that it found an older version of it so it asked me if i wanted to delete it, so i said yes. But when i did it, it just didnt delete the old version of mozilla it deleted all of the contents of the folder /usr/bin. When ever i want to run something it wont open and when i am in the konsole none of the commands work. By the way i am running Red Hat Linux 9.0. Is there a way to put all of the missing files back into the folder from the Red Hat cd's. Thanks for your help.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by dev/null:
when i was installing mozilla 1.4 it said that it found an older version of it so it asked me if i wanted to delete it, so i said yes. But when i did it, it just didnt delete the old version of mozilla it deleted all of the contents of the folder /usr/bin. When ever i want to run something it wont open and when i am in the konsole none of the commands work. By the way i am running Red Hat Linux 9.0. Is there a way to put all of the missing files back into the folder from the Red Hat cd's. Thanks for your help.
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Just "update" it with your original CD's.
SAJChurchey:
Actually, it probably only deleted the binaries and didn't "uninstall" the programs from the RPM tables. I would go through the redhat-config-packages program, uninstall everything and then reinstall it. It probably won't get EVERYTHING that was deleted considering some of those packages will not uninstall b/c they are required by the system.
Hopefully, all of the redhat-config-* packages were not deleted. If so, check the /sbin and /bin directories.
Good luck
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by SAJChurchey:
Actually, it probably only deleted the binaries and didn't "uninstall" the programs from the RPM tables. I would go through the redhat-config-packages program, uninstall everything and then reinstall it. It probably won't get EVERYTHING that was deleted considering some of those packages will not uninstall b/c they are required by the system.
Hopefully, all of the redhat-config-* packages were not deleted. If so, check the /sbin and /bin directories.
Good luck
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I think he means everything in /usr/bin was deleted... so he wont be able to get the gui up and the shell is useless... redhat-config-packages wont even run because of the missing files in /usr/bin... this is one of those rare cases where i'd suggest going through the installation again. Mozilla should not do that though.
SAJChurchey:
If he installed all of the program files directly so /usr/bin, it may be possible. It probably clears out everything in the previous installation directory when it runs the script for uninstalling it. For instance, if my installation was /usr/local/mozilla it probably runs
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or something similar. It might be something he wants to run by the mozilla newsgroups or bugzilla and see.
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