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Re: Doh! I deleted rpm!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Thu Oct 15 18:55:03 1998

Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:52:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Timothy King wrote:

>I accidently deleted rpm.  I thought, no problem, I'll rebuild rpm from
>the sources on my #2 CD.  But... the sources are in rpm format!  Where
>can I find a tarball of rpm?  Is there some way I can extract sources
>from the rpm?

If I delete a single file the easiest way to restore it is often to simply
copy it off the live filesystem on the CD...  Failing that you might try
www.rpm.org, failing that I can email you a copy of it ...

-dave

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