Re: Installing RPMs without booting normally

[Jesse Merriman <jessemerriman warpmail net>]

Hi,

Nope, this doesn't work. I have no /mnt/sysimage or /mnt/mnt/sysimage 
(since when you choose "mount exististing partitions under /mnt" in 
Mandrake's rescue mode, my old / is under /mnt). Still any combination 
of things I try give the same 2 errors as before:

error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

-jdm

James Olin Oden wrote:
> You need to chroot to /mnt/sysimage, and then all will be well.  This of
> course means that you would need to copy the rpm to 
> /mnt/sysimage/something.
>
> On the other hand you can achieve the same thing by doing from the 
> non-chrooted environment:
>
> 	rpm -Uvh --root /mnt/sysimage path_to_rpm
>
> If your on RH 9 you will get an error message about not being able
> to read the trigger index.  If nothing is triggered on this package
> then your fine (Jeff, if you read this, I think this is revealing 
> a bug with triggers and --root, but it could just be the verison of
> rpm in the RH rescue environement; I saw this in the RHCE class last
> week but forgot to mention it).
>
> Cheers...james