[plug] stuffed rpm

[Rob Dunne]

Hi list,
I seem to have killed rpm 
I needed to upgrade rpm -- but the upgrade seems to have failed.
Can anyone see what I have done wrong and what I need to
 do to fix it?
                     bye
			rob 
# rpm -ivh Bastille-1.2.0-1.1mdk.noarch.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by 
this version of RPM

# rpm -q rpm
rpm-3.0.2-6.0
rpm-3.0.4-0.48

# rpm -iU rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
        libdb-3.1.so   is needed by rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x
        libpopt.so.0   is needed by rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x

rpm -iU db3-3.1.17-4.5x.i386.rpm 
rpm -iU popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm       

# rpm -iU rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x.i386.rpm 
cannot remove /usr/lib/rpm - directory not empty

#rpm -ivh Bastille-1.2.0-1.1mdk.noarch.rpm
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

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