Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

[Jerry McBride]

On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 11:50:24 -0700 Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
wrote:

> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:21:15 -0400 Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >>What if I hose my machine? This machine double boots. Could I easily
> >>reinstall the old glibc?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > What I did before I installed those rpm's was to study them with
> > midnight commander. You can easily browse their contents, just like a
> > filesystem.
> 
> rpm -qlp <file.rpm>
> does the same thing, with half the overhead.
> 

True enough, but using mc if you happen to notice a script or other file
that you'd like,  just
f5 (copy) it to where ever you wish... kinda' nice...


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