[plug] stuffed rpm

[Rob Dunne]

Hi Kevin,
        that is probably the answer -- rpm-4.0.3 is
probably too new to install on a redhat 6.0 system.
However, I cant install an older rpm.rpm package now
as rpm is stuffed! I cant uninstall rpm-4.0.3 either.

					 oh dear
						rob


Kevin Shackleton writes:
 > Rob Dunne wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi list,
 > > I seem to have killed 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
 > > 
 > I had a similar problem a couple of months ago - someone kindly pointed 
 > out an rpm version that was new enough but not too new, worked fine.  
 > Check the plug archives.
 > 

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