Is it possible to recovery corrupted or removed 'rpmrc' file?

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Issue

  • Is it possible to recovery corrupted rpmrc file?
  • Every rpm command is failing due a corrupted rpmrc file?
  • Trying to install or upgrade packages using yum or rpm give the following error:
error: Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: No such file or directory.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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