[lug] RPMs from source?

Michael Deck deckm at cleansoft.com
Thu Oct 18 15:34:30 MDT 2001


On Thursday 18 October 2001 03:26 pm, you wrote:
> 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".

ls /bin, ls /sbin, and ls /usr/bin all give no hits. 

>
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>
> > -Mike
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