How to reinstall rpm 2003-12-04 - By Craig White
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On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:31, Chris Sechiatano wrote:
> You can probably boot off of the distro CD in rescue mode. Mount your root
> (/) partition, chroot it to / then reinstall the RPM package.
>
> Just make sure you chroot the partition or it won't work.
>
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> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:21:10AM -0700, Craig White <craigwhite@(protected)
> wrote:
> > Trying to upgrade rpm - I was in a loop needing to update popt and
> > up2date/rhn_register and finally, without thinking, I removed all the
> > rpm rpms.. (rpm-pythyon, rpm-4 (See http://rpm-4.ora-code.com).03.) etc.
> >
> > Is there a tarball and a way I can reinstall rpm so I can use rpm?
> >
> > Otherwise, I will have to upgrade the distro, not a big deal and I'm
> > figuring on doing that on Friday if necessary.
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OK - I have no problem booting from rescue disk and chrooting to the
hard drive root directory but the problem that I don't get ...
how do you install rpm when you can't run rpm?
which rpm
nowhere in path...
reinstall the rpm package? How?
Craig
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