go to the updates directory for RedHat 6.2, there you will find RPM-3.0.5
RPMs (in RPM 3 format! ). Install those, then you'll be able to install
RPMs packaged in V4.
--rdp
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, mike ledoux wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> >Okay,
> >
> >Maybe I'm missing something intuitively obvious here, but how does one upgrade
> >rpm *with* rpm?
> >
> > $ rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> > $ rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> > $ rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> I think you need to upgrade to rpm-3.0.6 first. I'm pretty sure it
> supports version 4 RPMS, so you should be able to go to rpm-4.0 from
> there. Annoying, no?
>
>
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Rich Payne
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