Re: How to reinstall rpm

[Matthias Saou <thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net>]

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.*.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.*.rpm

YMMV...
Matthias

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