lost commands

[suvayu ali]

On 22 April 2010 15:40, Kwan Lowe <kwan at digitalhermit.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:44 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, how would one do that without any of the
>> package management tools available? Is it with a separate instance of
>> rpm/yum that is on the rescue disc? But aren't packages like yum and
>> rpm not relocatable?
>>
>> Thanks for any clarifications.
>
> Yes, there is a separate installation of rpm/yum on the rescue disks..
>
> With a rescue disk you can use the rpm --root /path/to/fakeroot  to
> install packages.  Yum has a similar option with "installroot".

Ah! I think I understand it now. I was confusing between changing the
install root and relocating a package with --prefix to rpm.

Thanks a lot. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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