[ILUG] RPM question

[Ciaran Mac Lochlainn]

Is it possible to extract a single file from an RPM without installing 
the whole package?

I'm asking because one of the machines on site here crashed during a 
package upgrade (of glibc) and one of the libraries is giving errors.  
The library in question is librt.so.1 which is used by RPM itself, and 
now every time I try to use RPM it crashes.

I am assuming that if I can extract this file from the package (on 
another machine, I suppose) and copy it in, RPM will then work and I 
would then be able to re-install glibc.

The alternative, I suppose, is to install another server with the same 
version of Linux and copy the file from there.

Any suggestions?

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Ciarán Mac Lochlainn                      Senior Software Developer
Merit Solutions                    Claregalway, Co. Galway, Ireland
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