On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:27 -0500, Rob Kozar wrote: > t.w.i.m.c., > > in trying to satisfy some tricky dependencies, I installed a very > recent version of glibc: glibc-2.3.5-10.3 and (stupidly) both --force > (d) and --nodep(ed) it. Now rpm is broke as is yum. Here is what I > get when trying to run rpm: > Any suggestions as to how to manually fix this (since I can't use rpm)? > 1. find the glibc package you had installed before and use rpm2cpio to put it in place. 2. reinstall b/c chances are this install is hosed. 3. have someone you trust setup your machine and take the root password away from you. :) --nodeps and --force should NEVER be used unless you know EXACTLY what it will do - and in the case of the glibc package they should just NEVER be used. -sv
