On December 15, 2005 08:27 pm, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On 12/16/05, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The major problem is with one package:
> > linux-kernel-headers_2.6.11.2-0ubuntu13_i386.deb
> > Whatever I do it complains the same thing
> > "unable to create `./usr/include/linux/autoconf.h':
> > No such file or directory".
> >
> > Somehow google does not help this time.
> >
> > I then made a mistake, I force-removed this original package and
> > now I can not install it any more. So now my libc6-devel package is
> > broken and this means all the development packages are
> > broken.
>
> After trying for the whole morning, it is still broken.
>
> This broken package means that I can not compile anything now. ;-(
> I can not even compile pk2 and pyk now for PICkit 2. ;-(
>
> Maybe I have to reinstall the whole system. ;-(

keep your /home/users
and
keep useful rpms or tars somewhere so that you can re-introduce them on 
a fresh install.... maybe something like /home/RPMs_tars.

That way you got a directory full of stuff you know you want to 
re-introduce on fresh installs.
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