Fred Forester on Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:11:52 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Upgrading RPM


How do ya know you need to update RPM?

you could just compile openxxx it's not that big.

Fred

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bmatzelle@yahoo.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 3:03 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Upgrading RPM


> I'm trying to upgrade the RPM to version 4.0-4 so that I can 
> install openssl and openssh on my RedHat 6.2 box.  However, I get 
> this error:
> 
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version 
> of RPM 
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> I tried installing it using:
> rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> but it didn't work.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions that don't include me manually 
> compiling and installing RPM4?  
> 
> Brent
> 
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