Hi all,
"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
>
> On 2001.01.09 Alberto Vorano wrote:
> > Hallo to all!
> >
> > Maybe in the past someone just replied to my question, but in the present list
> > I found no match, so I ask, hopefully not again.
> >
> > Which way can I upgrade rpm-3.05x in Mandrake 7.2 to 4.x?
> >
> > As I found no way to upgrade it to 4.0x by rpm (I had back some errors due to
> > missing
> >
> > libraries and older DB2 database), I decided to try the tarball method.
> >
>
> You can upgrade via rpm. I have done several times. But you also need to
> upgrade your glibc, no way out. So:
> - get and install from cooker: glibc22, glibc22-devel, nscd, ldconfig
> db1, db2, db3, and install all at the same time with rpm -U *.rpm.
> This way you will not see any dependency problems.
> - get popt, rpm and install them.
> - do a 'rpm --rebuilddb'
>
I try this, but the pb. is that the new rpm is in version 4 which is not
readable by rpm version 3. So how can i start ? is glibc, db*, rpm and
all are available in rpm version 3 ?
Thank's for the answer
Olivier
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