help I installed rpm4.0.6 and now nothing works

Hi

I have been trying to install the driver for a new 3com gigabit NIC (3c2000). When I tried to build the driver I got an error saying that the make utility could not find the "-usr-src-linux-includes-linux-version.h" file. After searching around on the web I concluded that my src installation was not complete so I decided to update the installation (which is currently red-hat 6.2, kernal 2.something running on an intel pentium clbutt chip).

First I needed to install "apt-get" so I downloaded apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1.i386.rpm and tried to install it. When I tried to install this rpm I got a response telling me that rpm-4.0.0 was required. Unfortunately I did not check the current rpm version and proceeded to download and install the nearest version I could find to 4.0.0 (rpm-4.0-6x.i386.rpm). However now I cant execute directory listings and I cant open a bash session on the machine (I am trying to remotely connect to the machine using putty (telnet) - the machine is in a different location) - I can ping it and I can still mount samba shares. It seems that installing the rpm package has deleted a LOT of ESSENTIAL libraries!!!

Here are the sequence of commands I used when installing rpm-4.0-6x.i386.rpm. Everything was working fine until this point - after this nothin was working!!!

Can anyone help me please? Is there any way to log onto the machine without starting a bash shell (using putty) so that I can try and fix this (by re-installing all the missing libraries)? I cant see what I did wrong - I got no warnings about deleting libraries!

Cheers Mark

error: failed dependencies: libdb-3.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 librpmio.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 bash: apt-get: command not found total 2968 -rw-r----- 1 mark smbusers 0 Dec 22 17:35 TMP31B.tmp -rw-r----- 1 mark smbusers 885316 Dec 23 17:30 apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1.i 386.rpm -rw-r----- 1 mark smbusers 2215 Dec 22 17:35 psuedo.txt -rw-r----- 1 mark smbusers 2130440 Dec 23 17:43 rpm-4.0-6x.i386.rpm -rw-r----- 1 mark smbusers 4 Dec 2 16:04 test.txt Preparing... ########################################### 100% 1:rpm ########################################### 100% error: failed dependencies: zlib is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 bzip2 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libstdc++ is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 sbin-ldconfig is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 sbin-ldconfig is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 ld-linux.so.2 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libbz2.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libc.so.6 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libdb-3.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libdb.so.2 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libm.so.6 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libpopt.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 librpm.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 librpmio.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libz.so.1 is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 bin-sh is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libc.so.6(GLIBC2.0) is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 libc.so.6(GLIBC2.1) is needed by apt-0.5.4cnc7-fr0.62.1 ls:lib-ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBCPRIVATE' not found (required bylib-i686