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it's not in tools, can't find it anywhere, it doesn't come up in "install and remove software"
so any suggestions on getting it back with out reinstalling the OS?

in a terminal enter su to become root user then give the command

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urpmi drakconf

Arminius, just curious........what are you doing altogether?
In the other topic, you were not longer able opening txt-files, and now it seems you have lost MCC?
Must be something like heavy "tweaking", or.....???

no tweaking, I was trying to uninstall one file, and it asked me if I wanted to also uninstall a whole lot of files, I figured the system knew best, but lost most everything.

arminius wrote:no tweaking, I was trying to uninstall one file, and it asked me if I wanted to also uninstall a whole lot of files, I figured the system knew best, but lost most everything.

The system never "knows best", because it cannot read your mind

It did warn you that other packages would be removed. The purpose of such a warning was so that you could verify that you really did want to remove them. Since that could indeed have been your intention, when you answered "OK" it did what you told it to do.

As a matter of interest, which package did you want to remove? It is possible (but unlikely) that there is an incorrect dependency somewhere.

Jim

(Edited only to correct typo.)

jkerr82508 wrote:As a matter of interest, which package did you want to remove? It is possible (but unlikely) that there is an incorrect dependency somewhere.

I think he probably wanted to remove some system library or something like that, which may have sounded harmless by itself,
but sometimes via cross-dependencies such are buried deep down in the dependency chain, which would remove many vital packages.

F.ex. in a default installation, if you don't know the relations, and want to remove Pulseaudio, maybe because you don't like it or don't know the proper way to disable it, or like the brute-force way, and in the process libpulseaudio1 is also selected for removal, this will remove nearly 1000 packages from your system, nearly crippling it for normal desktop usage.

In my example nearly the whole of KDE, GNOME, libreoffice and ALSO drakconf would be removed, BTW.

I did the same mistake some days ago (trying unsuccessfully to build and run gnome15 on Mageia2).
I am very happy to find this topic.
It has solved my Control Center problem, but what about all the other things that may potentially have been removed by the command ?

Is there a way to urpmi all the packages originaly loaded by the initial Mageia install ? Or is there a way to access a log of all install/uninstall packages commands ?

jrebillat wrote:Or is there a way to access a log of all install/uninstall packages commands ?

this command could help you:

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grep RPM /var/log/syslog

Thanks !
That was very useful. I have reloaded the removed packages.

well done!!

so now you can close this thread prefixing with [SOLVED]
the subject in yor first post. Thanks