Hi,

I dumbly uninstalled neon software from my fedora core 5 and now I lost access to any kind of software that downloads any software. I can't use up2date, rpm, yum nore the default fedora core 5 package manager and downloader.

Can someone please help me get at least the defaults back on my system.

Thanks.

Well you learned a very painful lesson.......... You can try the following:

Boot with the installation media into rescue mode, when the menu screen is displayed type: linux rescue

Answer a few questions and do not use the chroot command (you have no need). When ready copy both the rpm and rpm2cpio files from the /bin directory to your root's directory on the hard drive, example;

cd /bin
cp rpm /mnt/sysimage/root/rpm
cp rpm2cpio /mnt/sysimage/root/rpm2cpio

Re-boot the system normally (remove the installation from the drive if need be). After the system is done booting either mount the media and locate the rpm 4.4.2-15, popt and neon rpm packages on the media or download them from Fedora Core;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu.../linux/core/5/

to your root's home directory then from the console or xterm session as root type something like;

rpm -ivh *.rpm

Example of the files you want:

neon-0.25.5-1.2.i386.rpm
popt-1.10.2-15.2.i386.rpm
rpm-4.4.2-15.2.i386.rpm
rpm-build-4.4.2-15.2.i386.rpm
rpm-devel-4.4.2-15.2.i386.rpm
rpm-libs-4.4.2-15.2.i386.rpm
rpm-python-4.4.2-15.2.i386.rpm

If you have any dependency issues for the install then satify then the same way either download them or copy them for the installation media.

thank you for you advice. I did remove my fc5 installation after I lost hope of getting rpm on my system, i install fc6; however I am having other problems with it, but I have managed solve all except one problem that I am working on.

But thank you again, I hope that your answer will help someone else who has made the same mistake as I did.

Have a good day!