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On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:46, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 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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Dude - you are the best...
rpm -ql rpm-4 (See http://rpm-4.ora-code.com).0.4-7x.18
scp -r root@(protected):/var/lib/rpm /var/lib/
scp root@(protected):/usr/bin/gendiff /usr/bin/
scp root@(protected):/usr/bin/rpm* /usr/bin/rpm*
scp root@(protected):/usr/lib/librpm* /usr/lib/
scp -r root@(protected):/etc/rpm /etc/lib/
scp -r root@(protected):/usr/share/doc/rpm*
/usr/share/doc/
Thanks,
Craig
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