How is RPM package installed?
This is like a 'chicken and egg' question.
RPM package manager (similarly other package management programs) is packaged in an RPM package itself and installed. But then how is RPM initially installed?
Likewise, if RPM is (forcefully) uninstalled, then how can it be installed back?
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This is like a 'chicken and egg' question.
RPM package manager (similarly other package management programs) is packaged in an RPM package itself and installed. But then how is RPM initially installed?
Likewise, if RPM is (forcefully) uninstalled, then how can it be installed back?
rpm
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
The same question could be asked about any package manager. If you made the question about the chicken-egg problem of package managers in general you would make it easier for non-Red Hat people to answer. Alternatively, if there is something special about Red Hat, it might help if you explain what the relevance is. Eg, do you have something in mind you plan to do with RPM in particular?
– cryptarch
yesterday
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This is like a 'chicken and egg' question.
RPM package manager (similarly other package management programs) is packaged in an RPM package itself and installed. But then how is RPM initially installed?
Likewise, if RPM is (forcefully) uninstalled, then how can it be installed back?
rpm
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
This is like a 'chicken and egg' question.
RPM package manager (similarly other package management programs) is packaged in an RPM package itself and installed. But then how is RPM initially installed?
Likewise, if RPM is (forcefully) uninstalled, then how can it be installed back?
rpm
rpm
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
asked yesterday
drgnfr
272
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The same question could be asked about any package manager. If you made the question about the chicken-egg problem of package managers in general you would make it easier for non-Red Hat people to answer. Alternatively, if there is something special about Red Hat, it might help if you explain what the relevance is. Eg, do you have something in mind you plan to do with RPM in particular?
– cryptarch
yesterday
add a comment |
The same question could be asked about any package manager. If you made the question about the chicken-egg problem of package managers in general you would make it easier for non-Red Hat people to answer. Alternatively, if there is something special about Red Hat, it might help if you explain what the relevance is. Eg, do you have something in mind you plan to do with RPM in particular?
– cryptarch
yesterday
The same question could be asked about any package manager. If you made the question about the chicken-egg problem of package managers in general you would make it easier for non-Red Hat people to answer. Alternatively, if there is something special about Red Hat, it might help if you explain what the relevance is. Eg, do you have something in mind you plan to do with RPM in particular?
– cryptarch
yesterday
The same question could be asked about any package manager. If you made the question about the chicken-egg problem of package managers in general you would make it easier for non-Red Hat people to answer. Alternatively, if there is something special about Red Hat, it might help if you explain what the relevance is. Eg, do you have something in mind you plan to do with RPM in particular?
– cryptarch
yesterday
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The installer ("anaconda" on CentOS) bootstraps the rpm environment by writing out the base files, then does the initial set of installs in a chroot environment. The rpm program from the installer exists outside of the install, and so isn't dependent on those files.
If you need to reinstall rpm then I'd recommend booting the installer into rescue mode and using the rpm command from that environment with the --root option to point to the OS you want to fix.
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Stephen Harris
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You can "always" extract the RPM contents, e.g., using rpm2cpio, and put the executables/scripts where they can be used to install packages. Call that a bootstrap process...
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
52k594164
rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
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The installer ("anaconda" on CentOS) bootstraps the rpm environment by writing out the base files, then does the initial set of installs in a chroot environment. The rpm program from the installer exists outside of the install, and so isn't dependent on those files.
If you need to reinstall rpm then I'd recommend booting the installer into rescue mode and using the rpm command from that environment with the --root option to point to the OS you want to fix.
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Stephen Harris
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The installer ("anaconda" on CentOS) bootstraps the rpm environment by writing out the base files, then does the initial set of installs in a chroot environment. The rpm program from the installer exists outside of the install, and so isn't dependent on those files.
If you need to reinstall rpm then I'd recommend booting the installer into rescue mode and using the rpm command from that environment with the --root option to point to the OS you want to fix.
answered yesterday
Stephen Harris
24.4k24477
add a comment |
The installer ("anaconda" on CentOS) bootstraps the rpm environment by writing out the base files, then does the initial set of installs in a chroot environment. The rpm program from the installer exists outside of the install, and so isn't dependent on those files.
If you need to reinstall rpm then I'd recommend booting the installer into rescue mode and using the rpm command from that environment with the --root option to point to the OS you want to fix.
answered yesterday
Stephen Harris
24.4k24477
The installer ("anaconda" on CentOS) bootstraps the rpm environment by writing out the base files, then does the initial set of installs in a chroot environment. The rpm program from the installer exists outside of the install, and so isn't dependent on those files.
If you need to reinstall rpm then I'd recommend booting the installer into rescue mode and using the rpm command from that environment with the --root option to point to the OS you want to fix.
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Stephen Harris
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You can "always" extract the RPM contents, e.g., using rpm2cpio, and put the executables/scripts where they can be used to install packages. Call that a bootstrap process...
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
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rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
add a comment |
You can "always" extract the RPM contents, e.g., using rpm2cpio, and put the executables/scripts where they can be used to install packages. Call that a bootstrap process...
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
52k594164
rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
add a comment |
You can "always" extract the RPM contents, e.g., using rpm2cpio, and put the executables/scripts where they can be used to install packages. Call that a bootstrap process...
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
52k594164
You can "always" extract the RPM contents, e.g., using rpm2cpio, and put the executables/scripts where they can be used to install packages. Call that a bootstrap process...
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
52k594164
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
52k594164
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Thomas Dickey
52k594164
answered yesterday
Thomas Dickey
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rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
add a comment |
rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
rpm2cpio will extract the content of the rpm package. It will not execute the rpm scriptlets. So, it is not equivalent to rpm -i. But this does not answer my question: how is rpm initially installed?
– drgnfr
yesterday
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
For that, you'll have to read the installer provided on various ISO media. They don't bake the resulting filesystem ahead of time; it's built up by running programs.
– Thomas Dickey
21 hours ago
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The same question could be asked about any package manager. If you made the question about the chicken-egg problem of package managers in general you would make it easier for non-Red Hat people to answer. Alternatively, if there is something special about Red Hat, it might help if you explain what the relevance is. Eg, do you have something in mind you plan to do with RPM in particular?
– cryptarch
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