On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Dave Carlson wrote:
> That RPM is at (i'm assuming i386 here):
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/libstdc++-4.1.2-13.fc6.i386.rpm
>
> so do:
>
> curl <that URL> | rpm2cpio - > /tmp/libstdc++-4.1.2-13.fc6.i386.cpio
> cd /
> cpio -iv < /tmp/libstdc++-4.1.2-13.fc6.i386.cpio
> rpm -ivh <that URL>

  For future reference (and Google fodder), run the curl/rpm2cpio on a 
working Fedora/something-with-rpm2cpio system, scp/whatever the 
libstdc++-4.1.2-13.fc6.i386.cpio file over to the b0rk3d system, run the 
cpio command there.  Should work.  (Yes, I know this has already been 
resolved, but still...)

  Jim: you used the --nodeps rpm flag, didn't you?  Tsk, tsk.  We made fun 
of ESR when he did that (and then blamed us!).  Think twice before 
invoking that flag; there's usually a reason for the dependency. :-)
  (FYI, the better rpm hammer to use would be something like: `rpm -Uvh 
--oldpackage libstdc++-4.1.2-12.i386.rpm`.  Too late now, I know, but 
again, future reference...)

  This did involve a very real bug (BZ#251035), and there were a corrected 
set of RPMs in updates-testing (4.1.2-18.fc7) as of Monday, but they thus 
far haven't been pushed to updates-released.  I'll install them on my box 
and give the maintainer some feedback so they can hopefully get pushed.

      Jima