-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [LIH] rpm woes Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:52:58 +0530 From: Mithun Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Learning Universe [http://www.egurucool.com] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was doing it on RedHat 6.2 but I think it should be distribution independant ... anyone tried this on SuSE or Mandrake ?? Mithun Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Rajesh Fowkar > V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD. > PANAJI-GOA > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------- > The mailing list archives are available at > http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/LIH ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
