On 25/10/2007, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I went to one of the mirrors last night and downloaded the yum rpm's > that were on the good box but not on the busted one. > > When I did an 'rpm -i', it said it was missing rpm-python and required > rpm >= 4.4.2. rpm --version said it was 4.4.2... "rpm --version" does not matter at all. Only the RPM database contents matter: rpm -qa rpm\* On your machine, it's likely that you've killed several packages, perhaps many more than yum, rpm*, ... rpm -Va most likely reports lots of missing stuff. > So I downloaded rpm-python and rpm.4.4.2. When I tried to install > them, it seemed that there were quite a few dependencies they were > missing. > > At this point, I'm guessing the safest thing is not to fix it, but to > reinstall everything. If I could use yum to resolve those > dependencies, it would be easy! But since yum is not working, and I > think it could be a dubious effort to try to resolve all those > dependencies by hand... Not difficult, but tedious.
