Greg Lopp on Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:51:02 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Upgrading RPM


I had this problem too.  Upgraded to 4, only to have it complain about
all of the rpms I downloaded thereafter...including netscape-4.75.   Had
a hell of a time getting back to 3.0.5.....too many other problem to get
to the root of that one.


Eric Lucas wrote:

> I had this problem.  I upgraded to a later version of rpm 3 (3.0.6)
> and was able to install openssh just fine.  Never tried 4 after I got
> 3.0.6 to work... no need.
>
> Eric
>
> bmatzelle@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> 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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