On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, David E. Fox wrote:

> On Monday 22 January 2001 20:32, Benjamin Sher whistled 300 baud, saying:
>
> > Our list guru Jose M. Sanchez wrote to me today to explain to me that
> > RealPlayer 8 uses the new rpm 4 version, which is not compatible with
>
> In that case, rpm would have been unable to install the RPM - it would have
> spit out that rpm version error message. (FWIW, I ended up switching in part
> to Mandrake because I was tryng to install a slew of uprades to my
> more-or-less Redhat 6.0 install and running up against a slew of problems
> because of the new rpm format. Hell, I couldn't install rpm 4 because it was
> in the rpm 4 format -- talk about a catch-22 situation! Even the rpm4 source
> didn't compile, either.)

I believe to effectively do this you need first to install RPM v3.05 or
something, which DOES support the RPM ver 4 files, and then upgrade again
to the ver 4. Yeah, it's beating around the bush I know, just that I didn't
write the packages ;-)


Ralph
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