[ltp] Installing rpms in alternate directories

James McKenzie linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:19:02 -0700


Eben:

Successful recovery and I'm on the path to move more of them...

James McKenzie


Eben King wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>I decided to backup the /usr/lib partition to backup media and I managed 
>>to not break the restore program. 
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>>BTW, how do you run rpm without libbeecrypt.so.6?  That is what I broke.
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>RPM says:
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>[eben@pc eben]$ rpm --version
>RPM version 4.1
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>Maybe that's older than yours?
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>You can try extracting the files with mc, or maybe you can find them on
>the net, or maybe some nice person will mail them to you.  I'd try them in
>that order.
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>Ooh, idea.  Boot up a rescue CD of the correct vintage, and reinstall 
>(--force if necessary) that package onto your hard drive.
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