RPM error: librpm-4.3.so

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:09:14 -0400, Mjumbe Poe wrote:

> Whenever I try to run RPM, I get the message:
> 
> rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpmdb-4.3.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I recently upgraded my version of RPM to 4.4.1 (along with Fedora 4
> from Fedora 3).  While doing some package cleaning (the atrpms yum
> repository didn't work very well for me, so I was replacing all of the
> atrpm packages), I removed a package called librpmdb4.3.  I figured
> this would be okay, since I was using a new version of RPM with a
> whole shiny new rpm-libs.  But now I'm getting this error.
> 
> I would reinstall rpm-libs-4.3 from an rpm, except I can't run RPM.  Any ideas?
> 

You can run "rpm", provided that you boot the first FC4 CD into rescue
mode. The rescue environment contains a working version of RPM, which can
be used to modify packages installed into your system environment.

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Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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