[CALUG] FC5 Help

[Hugh Brown]

On 7/6/06, Mark Wiater <mwiater at cablespeed.com> wrote:
>
> Jason,
>
> can you not boot with a rescue CD ( i think fedora's comes with one,
> used to i think), chroot to wherever you mount your current
> installation and then install the requisite packages using the CD's
> environment?
>
> Mark



This is the solution that first came to mind.  The other one would be to
download the rpm's and run
cd /
rpm2cpio <neededrpm>.rpm | cpio -idv

and that would extract the rpm files into their appropriate places.  You'd
need to update your rpm database later and also run any of the scripts in
the rpm.  This of course assumes that rpm2cpio and cpio work on your system.

As a suggestion for solving the original problem, if you have the disk
space, you might try using vmware's free product to set up a dev environment
that matches the rest of the team.

Hugh
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