Hi,
Is it OK to upgrade the RPM packge on the SuSE 7 machine too.
Any more precautions required to be taken ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Rajesh
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:57:45 +0530
Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why would installing RPM be so tough ? - answer is they changed the RPM
> database. You not only need to get a RPM which can read the old database
> and yet be able to handle 4.0 format but it should also migrate the
> database from the old format because the software available can read
> from the old format but definitely not going to write to it.
>
> No need to compile RPM - just download the following rpm (got this from
> rpmfind - didnt do any black magic!!)
>
> rpm -Uvh
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm.org/rpm/test-4.0.1/rpm-4.0.1-0.29.6x.i386.rpm
>
> Please note you can upgrade using any rpm which has th 6x in it - you
> cant use anything which has 7x (that is for RedHat 7.0 or above).
>
> Mind you it will fail some dependencies which you have to download
> separately like db3 maybe bzip etc etc.. Just search for them on
> rpmfind.net and download approrpiately. Just remember don't touch
> anything which has a 7x till you have upgraded.
>
> WARNING: After you download and upgrade rpm (upgrade rpm separately !!)
> run
> rpm --rebuilddb
> this will migrate the database from RPM 3.x format to RPM 4.x format.
> Not doing this will zap your RPM database and you definitely don't want
> to do that do you unless you never ever want to install any RPM ever
> after that.
>
>
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Rajesh Fowkar
V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD.
PANAJI-GOA
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