Oops, I removed openssl. How do I recover? - solved

veggie2u · Last edited by veggie2u on Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:59 am; edited 1 time in total

I messed up. I did an emerge unmerge openssl. Yea, I don't know what I was thinking. Is there someway to recover from this? Wget doesn't work, ssh doesn't work, and I don't have ftp on the box. I will have to put something on disk and move it over. Is there someway to get the static libraries or something?

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Just try to get the openssl tarball from here
with your webbrowser and then recompile.

veggie2u · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:

In a sense, that worked. I went to put that in distfiles, but found it was still there. So, instead of doing an emerge, that would use wget to download again, I used the ebuild command. I needed to do a compile, install, and qmerge. The man page has lots of info.
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jtmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

This just bit me in the arse too. I was tired of OpenSSL a few times a day spiking my cpu usage up to 100% from anywhere between 1 and five minutes.. Darnit. I should of thought it through a little better and just removed openssl from loading when the system boots,. I went and downloaded the source for wget, compiled and placed in /usr/bin. Re-emerged OpenSSL, then removed it from the default runlevel.