Your problem is that you're trying to install an RPM package with a 4.x
format using a 3.x version of RPM.
As I see it, you have two options. You can either install an older
version of mysql, one that was packaged with rpm 3.x, or you can upgrade
your version of rpm.
Upgrading rpm is a pain, though; you pretty much have to get the source
code and install it from scratch. BUT, doing that is a pain too, since
you have to have recent versions of all the libraries and other
utilities that it depends upon, and a lot of those are packaged with
version 4 of RPM, so you'd have to compile those from source as well...
I just gave up and upgraded to Red Hat 7 at home; it comes with rpm 4.
Don't know what I'll do at work, but fortunately so far I've been able
to get by mostly on stuff that came with Red Hat 6.2.
Ragnar Wiencke wrote:
>
> Hi there.
> I am running RH 6.1 and downloaded the files mysql-server-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm
> and mysql-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm and tried to install them. Then I got these
> messages:
>
> [root@lilli mysqll]# rpm -ihv mysql-server-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: mysql-server-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> [root@lilli mysqll]# rpm -ihv mysql-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: mysql-3.23.22-6.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> Can anyone tell me what my problem is and what I should do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ragnar W.
>
> Btw,
> I'm really getting to like Linux ;)
>
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