Hey OPJose, you are one of the Maters of Linux and I have been trying to figure out how or why I lost my ability to use my urpmi commands and I also cannot open my MCC.

When I try to do any URPMI commands I get the following:

[root@localhost stan]# urpmi --auto-select
Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/urpm.pm line 16.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.
[root@localhost stan]#

Do you know why it is doing this? Also I lost my ability to mount my CD.

All this happened when I was trying to compile some fixes to fix kopete. I am not sure what happened but it messed up my Mandrake Community 10.1.

I am trying to avoid doing an upgrade and I'd also like to know why this happened and if it can be repaired.

Thanks....

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OPJose please disregard, I went ahead and reinstalled and reformatted, I knew I could do this but wanted to avoid somehow all the extra work of reloading, so I would not have to go back and reinstall some of the software packages and settings I already had installed.

d-1