You may have downloaded an RPM for Redhat which needs RPM v 4.
Try getting the package for Mandrake from cooker or rpmfind.net and the
present rpm should do fine. I think. It does for me.
Paul

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:18:08 -0400
> Kevin Fonner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
> 
> KF> I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on 
> KF> undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets
> KF> I 
> KF> want to on corporate server.  Any ways I keep getting a wierd error 
> KF> message from rpm command.
> KF> 
> KF> "only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of
> KF> rpm"
> KF> 
> KF> what exactly does this mean and any ideas how to fix it?
> ========================
> You may have an old version of rpm.  Go to rpm.org and download the most
> recent.  You *may* have to download it as source (tar.gz) and install it
> that way.  I believe the most recent, stable version is 4.0.x (1 or 2)
> Mike




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