On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 05:22:27PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> The rpm code has moved from version 3 to version 4
>
> I need to get some rpm's installed on a box with rpm v3, but the rpm's I
> want are v4. Even the source code rpm.*.src.rpm is v4 so I can't upgrade
> my rpm to install v4 rpms.
Jeff Waugh has already posted a solution in a nutshell, but here is
possibly a more "behnd the scenes explanation":
rpm-3.0.x for x <= 4 cannot handle rpm4 style packages. This leads to an
uninformative error message of the form "can only install packages with
major number less than 4" (or something similar).
To solve this problem without needing to upgrade your entire system to
rpm4, you can use rpm-3.0.5 or later. This understands version 4
packages and away you go.
You can get rpm-3.0.5 (or rpm-3.0.6) from either rpmfind.net or from the
source: www.rpm.org.
Cheers,
Malcolm
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