Ok I give up...

[Dylan]

Richard,

First, thank you for your help.  I downloaded the RPM rpm form rpmfind 
distribution RPM.Org (and it is 4.2-1...).  It is not from a specific 
distrobution of linux.

Dylan

Richard June wrote:

>On Tuesday 26 April 2005 11:24, Dylan wrote:
>  
>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>I've done it before, by being stupid. here's what you gotta do.
>find somebody that has the elfutils from the distro you got the rpm 4.2.2 pkg 
>from and have them run this command...
>tar -cjf elfutils.tar `rpm -ql elfutils`
>note the backticks, not quotes. then copy that file to your machine, and do 
>this:
>cd / ; tar -xjf /path/to/elfutils.tar
>make a note of every package you have to do that with, when you finally unbork 
>rpm, then using rpm, install the versions of those packages so that your 
>rpmdb is consistent again.
>and for future reference, mucking about with rpm is a bad plan
>
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