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 -- ICQ: 25543458 Homepage: http://www.axllent.cjb.net PGP Public Key: http://www.geocities.com/axllent_nl/pubpgp.txt
