[ale] RPM displays error msg

[John Mills]

ALErs -

I'm glad this to see this thread, because I have a related problem.  I
went to install some RH6.2 update (I forget which one), and found I needed
to upgrade 'rpm', and sure enough there is an upgrade for RH6.2. _But_ to
upgrade 'rpm' I need to upgrade or install a 'libdb' (or similar), and I
can't find the baseline or upgrade 'rpm' for anything than looks similar.

Any suggestions on this?

TIA
 - Mills

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Yu, Jerry wrote:

> John,
> Redhat started to use version 4 'rpm' format for RH7.*. For those stuck with
> RH6.2, you can update your 'rpm' package to rpm-4.0.2-6x, which you can find
> from update.redhat.com or its mirrrors. speakeasy.rpmfind.net is quite a
> reliable resource for me over the years. 
> Of course, as Keith stated, having the upgraded 'rpm' executable cannot
> gurantee you can install RPM packages which is compiled with different
> library and stuff. It only gurantees that you can run rpm command against
> RPM packages in >4.0 version format.


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