> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Andrew Smith wrote:
>
>> Still plodding along here ... trying
>> to upgrade 6.0 to 7.1
>>
>> Anyone got an easy way to upgrade
>> rpm on RH6.0 to support >= 3.0 RPM's?
>> (6.0 rpm is: 3.0.2-6.0)
>> The new RPM on RedHat for 6.x
>> (4.0.2-6x) requires libbz2.so.0
>> that is not part of the standard RH6.0
>> 6.0 has bzip2 as: 0.9.0c-1
>> which doesn't contain anything called
>> libbz2.so.0
>>
>> I seem to have got a catch 22 here,
>> I need the new version of rpm to install
>> the RPM's to allow me to install the
>> new version of rpm.
>>
>> My non-RedHat supplied 6.0 CD also doesn't
>> have gcc on it ...
>> unless it was called something else two
>> years ago or it is in one of the install
>> images, which I can't seem to mount with
>> "mount -o loop -t ext2 file /dir"
>> coz they are not "ext2" ...
>> so I can't compile on this machine.
>>
> Try looking for a egcs RPM instead.
OK - found that - hmm ... name change or
license change?
>
> To mount, try "mount -o loop -t iso9660 file /dir" or just
> "mount -o loop file /dir". CD images are not ext2 file systems. They
> are ISO9660 file systems.
I meant the actual install images on the RH6.0 CD
e.g. /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/base/stage2.img
I tried iso9660 - but it said no.
Anyway - doesn't matter now as per my comments
further below, you've solved it anyway.
>
>> Anyone tried this? Anyone get it to work?
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> -Cheers
>> -Andrew Smith
>>
> Now, for your RPM problem, get the 6.2 updates. There is everything
> you need to upgrade to rpm 4.02 in the 6.2 updates. To get tlibbz,
> install the bzip2-0.9.5d-2 RPM.
Yep, that did the trick. Just needed that version
of bzip2 since the RPM file version was <= 3.0
Thanks!
(though after my stuffing around with installing
and uninstalling rpm, bzip2 and a few other things,
I had to redo RH6.0, then it all worked fine)
>
> Mikkel
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