You are not doing it right.... download these rpms from RH's site into a single directory...
db3-3.1.14-0.3.6x.i386.rpm db3-devel-3.1.14-0.3.6x.i386.rpm db3-utils-3.1.14-0.3.6x.i386.rpm popt-1.6-6x.i386.rpm rpm-4.0-6x.i386.rpm rpm-build-4.0-6x.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.0-6x.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.0-6x.i386.rpm and then issue the command.... rpm -Uvh *rpm and then immediately issue the command.. rpm --rebuilddb and you will be on rpm4 Kingsly PS:(make backups of the old rpm database and file.... as a precautionary measure) On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, PARAJ SHUKLA wrote: |Dear Fellow Linux Users, | |We wish to upgrade PHP3 to PHP4 on our RH6.2 machine. |We further wish to do this only by upgrading "rpm 3.0.4" to "rpm 4.0" | |To upgrade the rpm version, we downloaded the "db3 packages" from RedHat site |and installed them. | |Issued the command, | |rpm --rebuild | |We also downloaded the "rpm upgrades" from RedHat site. | |Now when we tried to install them it gave the very same error, viz. |"you need to have rpm 4.0 to install this package" or something like that. | |Please help regarding, | |Upgrading the RPM from ver 3.0 to 4.0 on RH 6.2 | | |TIA, | |Regards, | |Paraj | | |_______________________________________________ |linux-india-help mailing list |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help | _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
