[CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:06, Dan Roberts <dan at jlazyh.com> wrote:
> There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site
> to get them, but then things continue to show up as missing.
> # rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        librpm-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>        librpmbuild-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>        librpmdb-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>        librpmio-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>        popt = 1.10.2 is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386

See my previous e-mail, try with the previous version of yum from
CentOS 5.2 first.

Once you get yum running, you can use it to update your whole system
to 5.3 (in screen and SSH).

HTH,
Filipe