My understanding is that RPM 3.0.6 will recognize and install RPM4 style
rpm files. My understanding is that you can also upgrade to RPM 4 using
RPM3.0.6
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, John Marlovits wrote:
> Here's the deal I'm trying to install a network scanner from
>http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html
> I setup the program and it doesn't work.
> There are a couple of rpm's there but they don't install. I figured I needed the
>latest rpm to install the rpm from the web site.
> Has anyone used this program or know what I'm doing wrong? Should I even bother
>trying to update my rpm?
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/01 03:57PM >>>
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, John Marlovits wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install the new rpm file name rpm-4.0-6x.i386.rpm
> > I get a message
> > error failed dependencies
> > popt is needed by rpm-4.0-6x
> > bzip2 >= 0.9.0c-2 is needed
> > libbz2.so.0 is needed
> > libpopt.so.0 is needed
> >
> > I found the popt rpm but that wont install either. What am I missing
> > and why do I need these things?
> >
> > Using Red Hat 6. Upgrading from stock install.
> >
> >
> Do not install rpm-4x on a 6.x system. Use rpm-3.05 or rpm-3.06. Version
> 4 uses a different database format. Also, if you want to use RPMs from
> 7.0 on a 6.x system, you should get the source rpm and rebuild it on your
> system. You will run into problems with different library versions if you
> try to install the binary RPMs.
>
> Mikkel
>
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