Removed something important
 

Hi,

Please do not ask why I did this, I don't know, but here it is. I removed (via rpm -e) the zlib1 package on my Fedora Core 3 setup. As a result nothing (graphical) really works anymore as this package is used by quite a number of other packages. I do get to a command line though, but when i try to install (with rpm -i) the latest version of the zlib1 package it says it can not find a file from the older zlib1 version. How can I get this file installed from the command line ? This is probably not enough information to really give me a good answer, so please ask away !!

By the way, the reason i removed the zlib1 package is because I was running into issues installing a newer version. Guess that was the last time I do something of which i dont know the full consequences. My final goal is to install the mysql workbench application.

Thank a lot to anyone who can push me in the right direction. I am eager to learn, and God knows I need to.

Cheers,

Patrick

so what is it claiming it can't find? you could try using the upgrade flag. Otherwise try reinstalling the same version you had installed to begin with.

sounds like you are quite dependent on the graphical environment.
a quick yet brutal way would be to force installation ignoring errors. i looked up rpm syntax and found this:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...rpm-using.html
they covered common cases in there.
if you wish to just go ahead and install the package, try these options with rpm:
--replacepkgs
--replacefiles
--nodeps

hopefully that will get you your graphical environment back and you can deal with any problems with you graphical package manager.
i use a non-rpm distro myself so i might be wrong. hopefully that works. correct me if im wrong.

Hi,
thanks for the info. And yes, I am somewhat ashamed to admid that I am dependent on the graphical user interface. I do manage to do some things with the command line, but I an nowhere near proficient enough yet.

Anyway, here is some more info regarding my problem. When I try to install the zlib1 package with 'rpm -ivh zlib1-1.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm' I get the following message

RPM error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory.

Problem is that i dont know what the originally installed version was.

Something just dawned on me. I do have a two week old backup of all my data. From the command line i can probably make another fresh backup to my external hard disk. If that works, would it maybe be a better option to upgrade my whole syste to fecora core 5, instead of trying to repair this core 3 intallation ?

Any thoughts ?

Thanks again and best regards,

Patrick

I would prob go ahead and upgrade regardless.