On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Trollope wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm probably going to ask a very stupid question, so before I get flamed, I
> have looked at some FAQs, and I have tried downloading different
> versions...but to no avail. Please don't slam me, just point the misguided
> soul in the right direction. :-)
>
> I have RedHat 6.1 running, and downloaded some rpms from rpmfind. Now when I
> try to install them, it complains about the rpms being a later version than
> the rpm tool can handle. Easy I thought, I'll download the latest rpm
> package. Except, that needs the new tool to unpackage itself. Seems a
> little dumb to me? I wonder what I'm missing.
>
> I don't want to go compiling it myself - where can I download an rpm package
> with the new rpm binary in it for the old rpm??? Did that make sense?
>
Get RPM3.0.5 or 3.0.6 (you'll have to install it with
"--nodeps" due to a bug in the "requires" section.) You'll
also need some other updated packages, but basically go to
ftp.rpm.org and download and install everything in the
3.0.6x directory for rpm.org. There'll be stuff you won't
need, but it shouldn't hurt anything to install. I did that
a week or so ago on my machine at work.
John
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