[plug] stuffed rpm

[John Knight]

my rpm programme under kde is bunky and i want to get an update. where can i 
get it and is there any way to install debian packages? i'm using the 
standard packages under RH 7.1
cheers then!
anarchist tomato

preserve wildlife, pickle a duck

>
>Hi list,
>           I fixed my rpm
>I just copied a binary from another machine onto /bin/rpm
>then
># rpm -q rpm
>rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x
># rpm --version
>RPM version 3.0
>
>so it still thinks that it is a version 4.0.3 because
>this is what is in the database but the binary knows that
>it is 3.0 something. But it works
>
>I still cant install the original package that started the problem
>as it requires a newer rpm -- still I am glad to have it fixed.
>Rpm is nice if it is working -- but a disaster if it goes wrong.
>
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