Upgrade to RPM4 by compiling from the source?
Lou Baccari wrote:
>
> One of my users is having the following problem with rpm, any ideas on how
> to correct it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lou
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Viola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RPM annoyance
>
> Anyone know anything about this???
>
> Someone has changed the format of RPM's. See below:
>
> [root@bayes viola]# rpm -i -vv xfig-3.2.3c-3.i386.rpm
> D: counting packages to install
> D: found 1 packages
> D: looking for packages to download
> D: retrieved 0 packages
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> RPM
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> error: xfig-3.2.3c-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
>
> [root@bayes viola]# rpm -v
> RPM version 3.0.4
> Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software
> This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
>
> The problem is that I cannot seem to gracefully upgrade RPM itself. I
> have a Mandrake 7.1 system.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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