[ale] RPM displays error msg

[Cleveland Flowe]

"John J. Cruz" wrote:
> 
> To install x-isp xforms is required.  The Red Hat 6.2 CD does not have
> it. After locating a copy on the web, I download
> xforms-0.89-2.i386.rpm.  Installing it with rpm -ivh, the following
> message is displayed "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are
> supported by this version of RPM.  Error: xforms-0.89-2.i386.rpm cannot
> be installed"
> 
> Will a later version of RPM operate properly with 6.2?
> 
> jjc

I've done this successfully on three RH6.2 and three RH6.1 machines.
Follow these six steps.

1. get the following rpms from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/
  db3-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm
  db3-devel-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm
  db3-utils-3.1.17-4.6x.i386.rpm
  rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
  rpm-build-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
  rpm-devel-4.0.2-6x.i386.rom
  rpm-python-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
  popt-1.6-6x.i386.rpm

2. do a rpm --rebuilddb

3. make a backup copy of your rpm database 'tar cvf rpm.tar
/var/lib/rpm'

4. Upgrade the three db3 packages (must use one rpm command)
  rpm -Uvh db3-*

5. Upgrade the five rpm packages (must use one rpm command)
  rpm -Uvh {rpm,popt}-*

6. immediately convert the databases from db1 to db3 format
  rpm --rebuilddb -vv 


You will have to upgrade programs that statically linked with the old
rpmlib.

check more info from redhat here

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-016.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2001-015.html

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