I'm having problems installing a number of rpm packages.

Can't install these:
Guppi-0.35.2-1.i586.rpm
glibc-2.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-devel-2.2.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
bonobo-0.33-2mdk.i586.rpm

rpm error message:
"only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of RPM"

NOTE: this is not the usual dependency problem, the RPM program itself,
fails to open "Guppi-0.35.2-1.i586.rpm", even for query!

Can't install these:
gettext-0.10.35-17mdk.rpm
gettext-devel-0.10.35-17mdk.rpm
libgnomeprint11-0.25-3mdk.rpm
libgnomeprint11-devel-0.25-3mdk.rpm

Because of dependencies:
   rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
   rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)    <= 3.0.4-1

I have no clue where these functions are.  A search on rpmfind turns um
nothing.  A search on Mandrake web site also turns up nothing.  I was
on the mandrake mailing lists and they offered no particular help, other
than to point out that I needed EARLIER versions of what ever this was,
but they didn't tell me what it was.

I did a search for string "PayloadFilesHavePrefix" and
"CompressedFileNames" from /usr, both were found in:
/usr/bin/rmp2cpio
/usr/lib/librpm.so.0
/usr/lib/librpm.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/librpm.a
/usr/lib/librpm.so

Current versions:
Mandrake 7.0
rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm
rpm-devel3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm

These are in rpm and rpm-devel.  Could not find version rpm-3.0.4 in
Mandrake binary format on rpmfind, but I had 3.0.3 on my Mandrake 7.0 CD.

I installed them:
rpm -U --force rpm-3.0.3-43mdk.i586.rpm rpm-devel-3.0.3-43mdk.i586.rpm

Unfortunately, this did not fix the "rpmlib(...) <= x" dependency problems,
nor did it fix the "major numbers <=3" problem.

There seems to be an error in the dependency message!
i.e., is "rpmlib" really "librpm" ?
Also, is the "<= 4.0-1" and "<= 3.0.4-1" really supposed to be ">=" ?
After all, I downgraded my rpm to "<= 3.0.4-1" and get the same
dependency messages.
 

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