Expat causing rpm failure

[Florian Festi]

On 09/23/2009 09:00 AM, Peter Beck wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I, currently, am not able to use rpm as the expat library 
> libexpat.so.0.5.0 has been accidentally deleted from the system. I, 
> therefore, can’t use rpm to reinstall expat to fix the problem. I’m 
> starting to feel like a dog chasing it’s own tail ;)
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is a way to configure rpm to not use the 
> expat (XML) library so that I can re-install expat and get past this 
> issue.
>
> Thanks heaps for any assistance.
>
Easier solution is probably to convert the expat package to cpio with 
rpm2cpio and then install the library from the cpio archive (or just 
copying the file over from another machine).

Florian


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