[CALUG] FC5 Help

Jason C. Miller jason.c.miller at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 08:50:51 CDT 2006


Yeah...rpm2cpio requires those libraries.  :)





On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Hugh Brown wrote:

> 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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