YUM and RPM crash due to the liblua-5.1 library being missing
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I've been playing around with a LiveUsb install of basic Fedora with persistence. I attempted to install moonscript, which requires Lua and LuaRocks. After installing Lua and discovering there were flaws in the install which prevented LuaRocks from working, I used rpm to force Lua off so I could use yum to re-install it. The result was an error of this sort being yielded by both rpm and yum:
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
liblua-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I've concluded from this that my Lua version installed a library which both yum and rpm are now connected to. Is there anyway to fix this without reformatting my drive and installing everything from scratch?
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