"man rpm" doesn't give me anything that looks like I can get rpm to install just one file from a package in the place where it is supposed to go and *not* update any databases in the process. (It has a switch to do the opposite, namely to update the database without installing any files.)
rpm2cpio | cpio -id extracts the RPM contents without affecting the DB
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