Linux – Tips and Tricks

You will need to reinstall rpm as it looks like rpm is damaged.

• The rpm package only comes in .rpm format so will need to use the rpm2cpio command to install. rpm2cpio can be copied from another machine
• if you dont have it.
•      mkdir -p /var/tmp/xxx
•      cd /var/tmp/xxx
•      rpm2cpio rpm-4.0.3-1.03.6x.*.rpm | cpio -dim
•      find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
•      tar cf - ./usr ./etc | (cd /; tar xvf -)
• Then do "rpm --rebuilddb" to fix your database.