[plug] RPM

[Andrew Furey]

> Do you have your distribution CD handy?  One way
> that should work would
> be to boot off your cd as a rescue disk (or any
> other rescue disk that
> includes rpm), then mount your / partition as, say,
> /mnt/disk then do
> # rpm --root /mnt/disk -i <rpmpackagefile>

Seems to me (haven't actually tried myself) that a
simpler way would simply be to mount (any) CD with an
rpm binary (the program itself), copy the binary from
it to somewhere, umount, mount your RH/Mandrake CD,
and just do the absolute path of the rpm command you
just copied over, eg:

/root/rpm -ivh
/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-blah.i386.rpm

Then just delete the temporary rpm binary again.

This way the --root is not needed cause it's
installing in the right place anyway.

Andrew

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