Re: rpm from rescue CD

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange nsk no-ip org>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 06:23:49AM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> Using rpm on a Knoppix live CD to re-install packages on a FC4 system
> without a working ld, the following occurs:
> 
>   rpm -U --replacepkgs --root /mnt/hda6/ --noscripts glibc*
>   rpmdb: /mnt/hda6/var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8
>   rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.
>   error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
>   error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/hda6/var/lib/rpm
> 
> I should explain that this is happening a few thousand miles away from me
> in my daughter's residence.  
> 
> Am I right that the rpm on the Knoppix CD isn't compatible with the FC4
> database?
> 
> It's possible a FC4 install CD could be found or downloaded but would
> 
>   rpm --root /mnt/hda6/ --rebuilddb
> 
> be a feasible alternative? I'm concerned that, even if the system is
> resurrected, rpm wouldn't work on it.

In desperate cases, rpm2cpio package | (cd /mnt/hda6 && cpio -id).

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