screwed up rpm - how do I recover

[Scott Talbot]

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

	I have no solution for you, as I have the same problem(s)
Can't yum or up2date. FC3t1 won't boot into rescue mode, rpm has a
bajillion dependencies!  Not to mention the screwed up xinitrc making
the reboot an additional joy.

Well at least if I can't help you, you know you're not alone!


Scott