[ale] RPM - read this one.

[Prasanna P Subash]

you could do one of two things.

upgrade to rpm4.0. you might have to get the tarball and install it by yourself from ftp.rpm.org. Also you would have to install
libpopt and db3.

or you could be conservative and move to rpm3.0.6. This understands db3 format and i guess this is the direction that suse/caldera/turbolinux are going
as there are some bugs in rpm4.0 apparently.

-Prasanna


On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:21:31PM -0000, Ian Monk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to install some RMP packages but keep getting the error
> > message :
> > 
> > "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> > RPM"
> > 
> > For example :
> > 
> > [root]# rpm -i -v mod_ssl-2.7.1-2.i386.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: mod_ssl-2.7.1-2.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> > 
> > OR
> > 
> > [root]# rpm -i -v mod_ssl-2.7.1-3.i386.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: mod_ssl-2.7.1-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> > 
> > 
> > I have also tried to install the latest version of RPM but get the same
> > error message :
> > 
> > [root]# rpm -i rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> > error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> > 
> > 
> > You can see my version of RPM :
> > 
> > [root]# rpm --version
> > RPM version 3.0.4
> > 
> > Questions :
> > 
> > 1.  What number in "mod_ssl-2.7.1-3.i386.rpm" indicates the 'major package
> > number'?
> > 2.  How can I install a new PRM?
> > 3.  Or can anyone suggest an SSL that I can install with my current
> > version of RPM?
> > 
> > Any other comments/suggestions?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
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