Deleted rpm manager

RCbeta · 04-09-2006, 07:16 PM

ok ... i was really stupid .. i was cutting and pasting commands and mistakenly deleted rpm

rpm -r rpm

how do i put it back on to the system? Fedora Core 3 ... suggestions welcome ...

Randy

Brian1 · 04-09-2006, 07:58 PM

Couple ways to do this. Since rpm does not exist you can't use rpm to extract a new copy back. So you can get the source of rpm and compile and install that from www.rpm.org

Another way is to boot up with say knoppix live cd and extract the contents of thr rpm*.rpm file to the harddrive and place where the contents show they should be.

Brian1

bigrigdriver · 04-09-2006, 08:06 PM

Have you tried re-installing rpm from the installation cds?

Put disk 1 in the drive, mount it, then browse until you find it. Then install manually from the command line with 'rpm -i'.

Lenard · 04-09-2006, 08:10 PM

Third way is to boot from the installation media into rescue mode and use rpm from the media to install the rpm packages.

Fourth way is to download/use the FC3 recsue CD then install the rpm packages;
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...6-rescuecd.iso

Brian1 · 04-09-2006, 08:20 PM

Didn't know the rpm tool was active from the rescue cd there Lenard.

Brian1

Lenard · 04-10-2006, 09:03 AM

Yea, most people do not know aboutusing rpm from the rescue mode......... perhaps a down and dirty recovery guide is in order.

After booting into rescue mode but before using the chroot command the excutable version of rpm needs to be 'pulled' from the media first so one can use it to re-install the rpm packages.

So lets start by creating a location for the rpm files and rpm itself;

mkdir /mnt/sysimage/root/RPM_restore

Then copy rpm from the media;

cp /mnt/runtime/usr/bin/rpm /mnt/sysimage/root/RPM_restore/rpm

Now use the chroot command;

chroot /mnt/sysimage

The next step is to copy the rpm packages from the CD to someplace to re-install them;

mount /mnt/cdrom (or whichever is the mountpoint for the CD/DVD drive)
ls -l /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/rpm* (to get the list of the packages to copy)

Copy each of the packages listed from the output to where the 'pulled' rpm is located, for example;

Code:

cp /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/rpm-4.3.2-21.i386.rpm /root/RPM_restore/rpm-4.3.2-21.i386.rpm

Repeat until all files are copied. One may find it a bit easier to reboot the system normally and then copy or install the rpm packages from the CD/DVD. In either case once all the rpm packages are in the same location install them all at once, for example;

rpm -ivh rpm*.rpm
/root/RPM_restore/rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/rpm*.rpm

Sample results(using the force switch since I do not need to re-install them);

Code:

# /root/RPM_recover/rpm -ivh /root/RPM_recover/rpm*.rpm --force
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:rpm-libs               ########################################### [ 17%]
   2:rpm                    ########################################### [ 33%]
   3:rpm-build              ########################################### [ 50%]
   4:rpmdb-CentOS           ########################################### [ 67%]
   5:rpm-devel              ########################################### [ 83%]
   6:rpm-python             ########################################### [100%]

hth