How to recover after an rpm -e --nodeps rpm

ppuru · 08-07-2003, 01:00 AM

How can one restore normalcy after

# rpm -e --nodeps rpm

I am referring to removal of the RPM package itself (the rpm-4.2-0.69.rpm that contains the rpm related files).

Without this package you won't have the rpm utility to reinstall the rpm package.

DrOzz · 08-07-2003, 01:17 AM

ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/
go download the tarball i guess...
why would you have done that anyways?

ppuru · 08-07-2003, 02:00 AM

This is a test system to play around with. I just wanted to see how one can recover from such a situation.

I wanted to check whether I can get into rescue mode and use rpm to install the rpm package. Yet to try ...

Perhaps we should start a thread to find out ways and means (other than rm -rf /) to wreck a Linux system and recover from it without actually reinstalling it. Not sure whether that thread would fall into General or Linux General.

fatgod · 08-07-2003, 06:03 AM

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Originally posted by ppuru
Perhaps we should start a thread to find out ways and means (other than rm -rf /) to wreck a Linux system and recover from it without actually reinstalling it.

Ummm, isn't that what this site is all about??

unSpawn · 08-07-2003, 08:25 AM

I wanted to check whether I can get into rescue mode and use rpm to install the rpm package.
Won't work, rescue mode doesn't alter the SW map on the box.
Using a rescue CD will work, because rpm is on it, just gotta point the root to the root of the box, and maybe nudge rpm into seeing the databases in /var/lib/rpm .