Re: Problems with RPMs

[Brock Noland <brockn nolandbros com>]

rpmfind.net and look for the newest version of rpm



On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Przemek Kasprzyk wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I have the following problem. I'm using RedHat 6.0, but I would like to upgrade certain packages (e.g. XFree86, glibc and several others). I've downloaded the packages via FTP and tried to install/upgrade them using standard rpm commands. However my RPM program reported errors ("This version of RPM supports only major number versions <= 3 - or something similar). So I thought I'd better upgrade the RPM program package first. But when I tried to upgrade RPM using RPM the program reported the same problem. I have two questions therefore:
> 
> 1) What may be the problem and what commands to use to upgrade the packages in question?
> 
> Or even better:
> 
> 2) How to upgrade my RPM using RPM? I'm afraid deinstalling the previous version will end up in me having no program to handle my packages, am I right in this respect?
> 
> Thanks in advance for help,
> 
> Przemek
> 
> 

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