Hi running rh8 and tryed doing following: # rpm -Uvh rpm-4.1-1.06.i386.rpm But got following error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory. A previous post on 6 april 2001 looks similar and a copy is below - RE: rmp is hosed? HELP! Ok - you are stuck because you can not use rpm without rpmrc, and you can not install rpmrc from the rpm RPM without a working version of RPM, or using rpm2cpio and cpio to extract it. I am not sure what happened, but I have sent you a copy of rpmrc directly. Mikkel >From above, could someone please send copy of rpmrc with instructions for copying/installing it before attempting installation of rpm4.1. I think this will fix the problem. thanks, abas.m -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list