Nope. You are right. I upgraded one of the systems to RPM v4 and it 
works like a charm. And yes, it is very goofy forcing me to upgrade my 
RPM version in order to install a package distributed for RH6.2.
Regards, Dustin
<p>Ricky Salmon wrote:
<em>> I've seen that before when rpm's are packaged in the rpm ver. 4 formats, 
and
<em>> the rpm version I was using was 3.x.
<em>> 
<em>> I like RedHat's distro, but they do stupid things sometimes like not
<em>> completely testing the packages for compatibility on their download sites.
<em>> 
<em>> I could be completely off on that though...
<em>> 
<em>> Ricky
<em>> 
<em>> -----Original Message-----
<em>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<em>> Behalf Of Dustin Puryear
<em>> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:48 PM
<em>> To: BRLUG
<em>> Subject: [brluglist] RPM command..
<em>> 
<em>> 
<em>> I am trying to upgrade an RPM using the rpm command on a RH6.2 system.
<em>> We are still using rpm-3.0.4-0.48. The RPM is from Red Hat's website,
<em>> and labeled as a RH6.2 download. When I try to install the RPM I get the
<em>> following:
<em>> 
<em>> # rpm -Uhv xntp3-5.93-15.i386.rpm
<em>> error: failed dependencies:
<em>>          rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by 
xntp3-5.93-15
<em>> 
<em>> What is this? I didn't see any mention of it in the manpages, and
<em>> frankly haven't seen it before. Any ideas? I would like to apply this
<em>> RPM soon, so any help is appreciated.
<em>> 
<em>> Regards, Dustin
<em>> 
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