On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:27:17 -0500 (EST), Robert Engel said:
> I'm tring to install lsof, but I have version 3.0.4, and when I try to
> install lsof 4.47-5 I get the error
>
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: lsof-4.47-5.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> So... I tried to install a newer version of RPM... but of cource...
>
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> How do I go about installing lsof?!?
>
> engelr
> ---
> Linux: Because rebooting is for hardware upgrades...
> 8:23pm up 102 days, 8:50, 2 users, load average: 1.24, 0.59, 0.29
>
You need to upgrade rpm incrementally. Go to the rpm ftp site where all prior
versions are available. Use the RH rpms to go from 3.04 to 3.05 - I was extra
cautious and upped each available til I hit 3.05-27mdk. You'll have 2
dependency issues: libbzip & menu. Don't try to up bzip2 itself. I went an
extra step & manually ran rebuilddb with each. Tho I'm sure there's someone who
can give you a quicker or more elegant route, this works.
