Expat causing rpm failure

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 16:30 +0930, Peter Beck wrote:
> 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.

I would get a copy of the expat rpm from 
(say) mirrors.kernel.org/fedora expand it using
rpm2cpio, and then copy the files to wherever
they belong.

Good Luck - jon