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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:14:03 +0200, Olivier Dony wrote:

> On Friday, 25 July, 2003 17:57, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> > I think you're stuck with rpm2cpio.  Alternatively, you could build RPM
> > statically on your machine, but my guess is that rpm2cpio would be easier.
> 
> Ah yes but I have no idea as to how I can use rpm2cpio to bypass
> rpm and install a package. Can you explain this a bit, I am very
> new to redhat. (this is on RH7.2- Enigma)

"man cpio" *grin*  cpio is not specific to Red Hat Linux. ;)

Really, rpm2cpio gives you access to a cpio archive inside the rpm.
Try something like

  mkdir test ; cd test
  rpm2cpio glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm | cpio -id --no-absolute-filenames

to extract the files inside. You could also extract them within your
top-level directory and overwrite what's installed.

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