Overwritten handful of libs in /usr/lib

mlenz · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

Hi!

Unfortunately I was as stupid to copy (overwrite) several libs into my /usr/lib directory instead of the actual dest-directory. After eradicating half of my hair, I realised that some applications do not want to run any more...
I still have the list of libs that I have overwritten but do not know if there is the possibility to recover the "original" libs in my /usr/lib dir.

Can somebody help me please?
Thanx,
martin

gami · Apprentice Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 297

Which files did you overwrite? Can you still emerge packages? If yes, try to find out which packages the overwritten files belonged to and re-emerge those. "equery belongs /some/file/name" allows you to find the package a file belongs to.

mlenz · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 4

I have already tried to do so, but it seemed that the affected libraries weren't changed! (md5sums were still the same after re-emerging the packages)