Re: rpm problem w/ 6.1 & 6.2

[Ralph Slooten <ralph slooten quicknet nl>]

You are aware though that you are trying to intstall a source rpm, and not
a built rpm?


I think that the package you are looking for would be a *.i386.rpm, and not
a *.src.rpm. This doesn't change the fact that your rpm is outdated,
however you will need the prebuilt binary to run the program, or you will
have to rpm --rebuild the src.rpm to make your own binaries (if you have
all the libraries and devel packaged needed installed).

Ralph

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Matt Drew wrote:

>
> You need to update rpm itself first.  Use the rpm-4.0.2 packages for 6.2
> (you'll also need the db3-3.1.17 upgrade as well).
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Chuck Campbell wrote:
>
> > when I try to install the netscape-4.77-0.6.2.src.rpm from a redhat
> > mirror (I dl'ed it from valinux) I get the following:
> >
> > rpm -Uvh netscape-4.77-0.6.2.src.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: netscape-4.77-0.6.2.src.rpm cannot be installed
> >
> > Ok, I assume there is an epoch related problem as the list has been discussing
> > lately, so I thought I'd roll my own.  Only I tried:
> >
> > rpm2cpio netscape-4.77-0.6.2.src.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error reading header from package
> >
> > iSo, now I'm stuck.  What do I have to do next?
> >
> > thanks,
> > -chuck
> >
> >
>
>

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