[CentOS] Recover /usr/lib/libc.a

Sat Jan 30 06:54:38 UTC 2010
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 08:14 +0200, Zvi Vered wrote:
> I did a mistake and erased libc.a from /usr/lib
> 
> How can I recover it without reinstalling Centos ?

/usr/lib/libc.a is provided as part of the glibc-devel rpm.

If you merely erased the file with a rm command or something like that,
you can probably just download the glibc-devel rpm from your friendly
neighbourhood Centos mirror site, extract libc.a from it and copy it
back into /usr/lib.

Or you could download the glibc-devel rpm and use the rpm command with
the "--replacepkgs" directive to reinstall the whole rpm.

Either method should work.

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