Ok I give up...

[Dylan]

I made a big mistake.  I was trying to update rpm to 4.2.2 (why?? long 
story...) on YDL 3.0.  I met all the dependencies (so I thought...) and 
then installed the RPMs.  Now when I use RPM, I get the error:

    rpm: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.1: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory

I know I have to update elfutils.  The problem is that all of the 
versions of elfutils that I can use can only be found as an RPM.  Has 
this ever happened to anyone?  If it did, would you, please, advise me 
of how to get out of it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dylan