you would get a much better reply from the group.
180 minds work better than 1, so i'm forwarding this to the vox-tech.
besides, then i would have to ask you for a lert donation. ;)
if i were in your shoes...
i'd find someone with the same operating system, ask them to tar up the
relevant directory and send it to me, and hope for the best.
_if_ /usr/lib/rpm doesn't contain specific information about your system
(ie, which rpms are on your particular machine), then i don't see why this
wouldn't work. however, if it does contain specific information about your
system, then you're in very serious trouble. i don't remember where rpm
keeps its system info.
have you tried the --force option with rpm to install rpm.rpm?
another course of action would be to use rpm2cpio, convert the rpm to a cpio
archive. then unarchive the cpio file. i have to figure this damned
command every time i use it. i keep wanting to use
cpio -i mycpio.cpio --no-absolute-filenames
but that doesn't work. it wants some other option which i can never
remember. usually takes me 15-30 minutes everytime i do this. anyway,
once you turn the rpm -> cpio -> a bunch of files, you can move the files
where they belong. so for instance, ./usr/lib/rpm should be moved to
/usr/lib/rpm. or whatever is missing...
these are some ideas. maybe someone will come up with a better one, but at
least it gives you a starting point.
pete
> -- Forwarded message from "Robert G. Scofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
>
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:52:41 -0800
> From: "Robert G. Scofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686)
> Subject: Help Please
>
> Pete,
>
> I've really messed up. I've got a big problem on my hands. I
> downloaded a new update for rpm. rpm has apparently changed, and so
> there's an update for it. When I tried to install the rpm for the rpm
> update I got an error message saying that an rpm directory could not be
> removed because it was not empty. I responded to this by rm -r for the
> relevant directory. That was a big mistake, because now when I try to
> install the new rpm for the rpm update I get this message: "unable to
> open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc no such file or directory."
>
> I then got out my Red Hat cd and and tried to re-install the rpm for the
> original version of rpm. Of course that won't work either because I get
> the same error message. The bottom line is that I cannot now install
> any rpms. What can I do? Do I try to find someone else who's running
> Red Hat 6.1 and ask for a copy of /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc?
>
> Do I upgrade to Red Hat 6.2? If so, will it upgrade a file that is not
> there, such as /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
> --
> Robert G. Scofield
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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