 | | | How to reinstall rpm | How to reinstall rpm 2003-12-04 - By Matthias Saou
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Craig White wrote :
> 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?
I guess you could try :
- Copying the "rpm2cpio" binary from another machine
- Copying the rpm package locally
- Running something like :
cd /
rpm2cpio /path/to/rpm-4 (See http://rpm-4.ora-code.com).*.rpm | cpio -dimv
Then you could clean up what you just did (in case it's a different version
of rpm, mainly) :
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps rpm
rpm -Uvh /path/to/rpm-4 (See http://rpm-4.ora-code.com).*.rpm
YMMV...
Matthias
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