Manually install RPM

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Devon Harding wrote:
> 
> 
>     Via a "rescue CD".  You'll need to boot the rescue CD, and install it
>     from there.
> 
> 
> No other way?  From tar.gz?
> 
If you want your RPM database to be consistent, no, you must install
from an RPM.  You'll need to erase the bad one first.  So long as you
are going to replace it with an older version, you should be able to
erase it with the --nodeps option, but you'll need a consistent
environment (ie, the Rescue CD) to install it from.  And you'll have to
know how to install RPMs from the rescue CD into your system via the
--root option of rpm.  Once you have restored the bad package, you
should be able to use your system again (assumes that you only broke one
package).

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