1. [OT] Re: some guy named Rob, EuGtk and libgtk misbehaving, and one ugly ok bu
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:25:48AM +0000, Steve wrote:
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> I have tried installing RPM on the computer but it has
> driven me insane and every howto for installing RPM assumes that you
> already have an old version present. :(
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I once converted an rpm for rpm (version 4 something iirc) to a tarball...
using that I was able to install rpm on an rpm-less mini-linux distro.
It did take some tweaking tho (and i had to run 'rpm --initdb' btw, w/o
that no other rpm commands will work--only run it once tho ... if you run
it on a machine that already has an rpm database, it might be wiped out).
An easier method might be to get an rpm2tgz program (script or binary) and use
that to convert the rpm you want to install. You lose dependancy information
that way tho.
jbrown
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