[lug] RPMs from source?

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Thu Oct 18 15:26:15 MDT 2001


Michael Deck wrote:
> 
> Ok, here's another wierd problem from my recent KRUD install. I don't appear
> to have rpm installed on my machine! So, I've got bunches of RPMs but I guess
> I need a tarball to bootstrap it. Or have I missed something? Just copying
> /bin/rpm from another machine doesn't seem to do the trick. I have bunches of
> stuff installed from rpms, but apparently not rpm itself.

More likely it just isn't in the path of your shell's environment. Try a
full path specification, explicitly use "/bin/rpm whatever" instead of
"rpm whatever".

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> -Mike
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