On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> > Anyone know what this is and how to fix it?
> >
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this
> > version of RPM
> > error: nethack-3.3.1-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andre
>
> This means that you are trying to install a package that was compiled with
> an older version of rpm (version 3). To fix this, you need to get the
> src.rpm and rebuild it, or find an rpm that was compiled using rpm 4.
> Redhat 6.2 had an updated rpm (3.0.5) that could do both, but ever since
> then, rpm 4 was required. Once you get the src.rpm
> (nethack-3.3.1-3.src.rpm), you can rebuild it thusly:
>
> rpm --rebuild nethack-3.3.1-3.src.rpm
>
> Which will put the newly built package in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (or
> i686, depending on the version that you optimized for)
>
> rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/nethack-3.3.1-3.i386.rpm
>
> Then you should have it.
>
> Forrest
>
Actualy, it means that the RPM was compiled with a version of rpm later
then the version he is running. He is running rpm 3.0.X (where x in
less then 5). He needs to upgrade his version of RPM.
Now, how he is getting this error on a Seawolf machine is a mistry. I
have seen it on 6.2 and earlyer machines that were not keep up to date.
Mikkel
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