Re: rpm problem w/ 6.1 & 6.2

[Chuck Campbell <campbell neosoft com>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:57:13AM +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> 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 This doesn't change the fact that your rpm is outdated,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

Ralph,
yes I know I was trying to install a .src rpm.  This was by design, and I do
have everything I need to do the rebuild.  It still doesn't work because
of ???

I never install other peoples binary rpm's (although I do know this netscape
source rpm contains executable binaries from netscape).

I'm simply trying to figure out how to make my system work again with newer
rpm's that are showing up these days.

I've been told that I need to upgrade rpm to 4.0.2, so I guess that is the
answer.

-chuck

> 
> 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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