rpm installation fails due to depencency /bin/sh not found

Question

i am trying to install a package using rpm, for which i have created a different database using rpmdb --initdb --dbpath $HOME/myrpmdb and specifying that path in t

Answer 1

error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by XXX

This happens because bash rpm is not available in the new rpmdb path. You would have to use following to get the rpm installed.

# rpm --dbpath $HOME/myrpmdb --nodeps -ivh XXX.rpm