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Description of problem:
The nothing selected minimal install ends up with a non-working rpm, and rpm-libs is not installed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda from fc5t2 installer (boot.iso?)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fc5t2 boot.iso, network install: ftp
2. at package selection unselect everything.
3. next etc.
4. once complete, try: rpm
  

Actual Results:  #rpm -qa
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  should see the minimal installed package list.

Additional info:

#ls -l /usr/lib/librp*
  No such file or directory.
#ls -l /bin/rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rpm rpm 83732 Jan 10 02:20 /bin/rpm

manually copying on librpm-4.4.so, then librpmdb-4.4.so, then librpmio-4.4.so, then librpmbuild-4.4.so from a FC4 system has got rpm operating.

#rpm -qa|grep rpm
rpm-4.4.2-12
but
doesn't rpm need rpm-libs ?

Without a working rpm, much harder to put the other particular packages you need onto the freshly installed system.

see also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132682