Do you know if I would have the smae problems installing another version 
of rpm 4?  I found an rpm-4 rpm from the rpm web site.  Is this one 
safer to install to update my version of rpm?

-Paul R

Tom Brinkman wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 December 2000 11:30 am, Paul R wrote:
> 
>> Anybody know how I can install rpm4?
> 
> 
>   ftp://ftp.tvd.be/packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/
> 
>     Only if you're trying to trash your system:  You can download the 
> cooker rpm-4.0-10mdk.i586.rpm, put it in a dir by itself and run 'rpm 
> -Uvh *.rpm'   I'm certain you'll get many failed dependencies when you 
> do. You can then dl those dependencies from cooker, and try 'rpm- Uvh 
> *.rpm' again.  You'll prob'ly get more failed depends again. You can 
> keep repeating the above process till you don't get any more failures.
> I doubt you'll ever get that far, but if you're unlucky and you do, 
> you'll have rpm-4, but you'll also have a buggy, unstable system.
> 
>    That's why it's called cooker ;>



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