On 2001.01.09 Alberto Vorano wrote:
> Hallo to all!
>
> Maybe in the past someone just replied to my question, but in the present list
> I found no match, so I ask, hopefully not again.
>
> Which way can I upgrade rpm-3.05x in Mandrake 7.2 to 4.x?
>
> As I found no way to upgrade it to 4.0x by rpm (I had back some errors due to
> missing
>
> libraries and older DB2 database), I decided to try the tarball method.
>
You can upgrade via rpm. I have done several times. But you also need to
upgrade your glibc, no way out. So:
- get and install from cooker: glibc22, glibc22-devel, nscd, ldconfig
db1, db2, db3, and install all at the same time with rpm -U *.rpm.
This way you will not see any dependency problems.
- get popt, rpm and install them.
- do a 'rpm --rebuilddb'
If you are short of disk space (and never want to go back to rpm-3), you
can delete the files /var/lib/rpm/*.rpm. Its the old (v3) database.
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