You need to get rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm (note the 6x instead of 7x). 6x
packages are in v3 format, but 7x packages are in v4 format (so you already
need rpm v4 to install the latter).
And lo, upon Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:59:01PM +0100, José Manuel Sánchez López spaketh thusly:
> I have RPM 3.0.4 installed and running. When I try to upgrade my RPM version
> (i.e.: rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm) I have this message
>
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
>
> I read that this is because the package I am trying to install has a diferent
> format, my question is how can I install a new rpm which hold that new format?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> JMSL
>
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