[lug] RPMs from source?

[D. Stimits]

Michael Deck wrote:
> 
> 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.

The install was definitely incomplete. You have bigger problems than a
simple process hang. Possibly something completely missing is the cause.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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