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I have Fedora core 12. I'm an idiot. I deleted yum trying to install yumex. I've lost package kit as well. Is there any hope???...
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    Deleted yum

    I have Fedora core 12. I'm an idiot. I deleted yum trying to install yumex. I've lost package kit as well. Is there any hope???
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    Hi and welcome,

    You can download the RPMs for yum here:
    32bit: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/rele...6/os/Packages/
    64bit: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/rele...4/os/Packages/

    Select the package you need and copy the download link, so that it can be used as argument to e.g. wget

    Then install it via
    rpm -Uvh <RPM_Package>

    There might be dependency issues.
    If so: Repeat the download + install procedure as often as needed.
    You can (and sometimes have to) have multiple RPMs installed with one rpm -Uvh

    Hope that helps, please report back -with error message- if there are problems
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    Did you un-install it or just delete its conf files? Irithori's suggestion should work fine for you.
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    I downloaded rpm. It needed yum-metadata-parser. Downloaded that. It fails with a version lock error. I'm doomed.
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    No great one, I deleted it. I followed your instructions on past distros, but I blew it!!
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    Post exact error message here. As I asked earlier, how did you delete yum?
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    rpm -Uvh yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-14fc12.i686.rpm
    error can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000 (No such file or directory)

    I downloaded a plug-in for yumex. after installing plug-in, yumex back end failed to start. Used packagekit to remove plug-in. Didn't understand how remove worked, removed all "yum" entries. STUPID, STUPID monkey!!
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    hmm,
    /var/lib/rpm is owned by the rpm package itself, so I wonder if that installation got hurt, too..

    please do a
    Code:
    ls -la /var/lib/rpm

    Another thought: you do issue the rpm -Uvh as root?
    Because only root can write in that directory and therefore create lock files
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    drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2010-05-02 09:24 .
    drwxr-xr-x. 45 root root 4096 2010-05-02 09:06 ..
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5578752 2010-05-02 09:07 Basenames
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12288 2010-05-02 09:07 Conflictname
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1859584 2010-05-02 09:07 Dirnames
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 10551296 2010-05-02 09:07 Filedigests
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32768 2010-05-02 09:07 Group
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 36864 2010-05-02 09:07 Installtid
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 86016 2010-05-02 09:07 Name
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 28672 2010-05-02 09:07 Obsoletename
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 52604928 2010-05-02 09:07 Packages
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 663552 2010-05-02 09:07 Providename
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 208896 2010-05-02 09:07 Provideversion
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12288 2010-05-01 18:49 Pubkeys
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 569344 2010-05-02 09:07 Requirename
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 360448 2010-05-02 09:07 Requireversion
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 176128 2010-05-02 09:07 Sha1header
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 86016 2010-05-02 09:07 Sigmd5
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12288 2010-05-01 18:08 Triggername
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    No. I did not. Stupid monkey Should I try that??
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