screwed up rpm - how do I recover

Manuel Moreno manolo at miconexion.com
Sun Aug 22 19:03:09 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 12:53 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> Installed rpm-4.3.2-0.10, which screwed everything up. I installed the rpm 
> 4.0.4 libraries!
> 
> Now, how do I fix it. rpm obviously doesn't work. I have the rpm-4.3.2-0.4 
> rpms, but I can't install them.
> 
> rpm2cpio doesn't work, so I can't install using cpio.
> 
> Is the a tool to extract rpm files that doesn't depend on rpm being 
> installed?
> 
> Where are the plain source files, i.e. rpm-4.3.2.tar.bz2?
> 
> sean
> 
> 

Use another box and copy the files with scp or whatever :-)

-- 
Manuel Moreno <manolo at miconexion.com>





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