... I need the latest version of rpm to do an installation, so I
downloaded the .rpm for rpm... but guess what? you need the latest version
of rpm to install the .rpm for rpm as follows:
[david@fast rpm-update]$ rpm -i --test rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
[david@fast rpm-update]$
... So I searched the RedHat site and found:
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html
.. which suggest I download 4 rpms and then do:
6. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filename]
where filename is the name of the RPM.
... which I did and got the following:
[david@fast rpm-update]$ ls
popt-1.5-9.6x.i386.rpm rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
rpm-devel-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm rpm-build-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
[root@fast rpm-update]# rpm -Fvh popt-1.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
popt
##################################################
[root@fast rpm-update]# rpm -Fvh rpm-build-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
rpm: no packages given for install
[root@fast rpm-update]# rpm -Fvh rpm-devel-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
rpm = 3.0.5 is needed by rpm-devel-3.0.5-9.6x
[root@fast rpm-update]# rpm -Fvh rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
bzip2 >= 0.9.0c-2 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
libbz2.so.0 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
[root@fast rpm-update]#
Could someone suggest where I go from here? I am concerned that I don't
break anything on the system in the meantime. The original installation
was RH6.
Many thanks.. David.
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