Re: Upgrading RPM version 3.0 to 4.x

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Carles Garrigues wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> First of all, I suppose you'll notice I'm new with Linux and RPM.
>
> I have tried to install some packages with GnoRPM but I get an error
> message saying "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported
> by this version of RPM". I wanted to install the package
> rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm but I'm getting the same error. I would like to
> know how can I upgrade my RPM version (now is 3.0), if possible
> without losing the rpm database (that contains list of all installed
> packages) and being able to use GnoRPM to make the installations.
>
> If anyone could help I would be very grateful.
> Thanks for help in advance!
>
>
If you are running RPM version 3, then you are probably running RH6.x,
so you will want to get the updated rpm from the 6.2 updates.  You
probably should get the other updates as well.  There are some bug fixes
that are handy to have installed.

You can get the updates at updates.redhat.com, or any number of mirror
sites.

Mikkel
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