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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:53:12 +0100, Nick A. Sugiero wrote:

> For some reason when trying to update my gzip today following the security
> advisory I discovered my /bin/rpm is not working, when checking the file I
> discovered it was 0 bytes and simply no longer works.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this, or when I can get the /bin/rpm binary ?
> I'm not a fan of rpm and usually update/install via source so I've got no
> idea on this.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.

Get the "rpm" package from your CDs, go into the top directory of your
system and run something like

  rpm2cpio rpm-4.2-0.69.i386.rpm | cpio -i bin/rpm

Following the manual page of cpio you can adjust this to your liking.

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