Hey readers!
I'm writing this post because, well, I had a server I had to update the software for, and discovered that the rpmlibs were out of date. I had a PCLinuxOS install on a production server, with rpmlib 4.6, and everything was swapped over to 4.8 December 2011. So, Big Problem: I have a production server needing updates, and new packages, and I can't install any of them.
Luckily, I had saved the aptupgrade rpm that texstar had created, so I extracted it's contents ( as it was needing some dependencies to be installed, for the gui end ) and zipped them up.
Here is the file, the upgrade.zip
Once you have it, and unzipped the contents ( making sure to preserve the directories of course ) you will need to copy all the files to their proper locations, as root. Open a terminal, change to the directory with the opt and usr directories from the zip, run 'su' to get to root, and run these commands: