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[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [08-21-06 15:16]:
> Now download rpm.x86_64
> 
> http://download.uni-hd.de/ftp/pub/linux/suse/update/10.1/rpm/x86_64/rpm-4.4.2-43.4.x86_64.rpm
> 
> and extract it somewhere (preferably an otherwise empty directory):
> 
> rpm2cpio.pl rpm-4.4.2-43.4.x86_64.rpm | cpio -id
> 
> Now copy the extracted files manually to their location.
> 
> Important: rpm will probably work again, but copying the files manually
> will not register rpm itself in the rpm database. So you should
> rpm-install rpm on top of the manually extracted files:
> 
> rpm -Uvh rpm-4.4.2-43.4.x86_64.rpm
> 
> And a general hint: Use "rpm -U", not "rpm -i" when installing packages.
> This might help avoiding double installed packages (-U replaces an
> existing package which is the right thing in most situations, -i will
> install a new package in addition to the existing one).
> 
> If that fails, try 2. Boot into the rescue system, mount your / file
> system and use
> 
> rpm -Uvh --root=/mountpoint rpm-4.4.2-43.4.x86_64.rpm
> 
> to reinstall rpm on the rpm-less system.
> 


tks, I'm working on it now...
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