[ale] Upgrading to Apache 2 on RH 7.3

[Howard Fore]

Hi,

I'm attempting an upgrade to Apache 2.0.x from 1.3.27 on a Redhat 7.3 
box. RH doesn't appear to offer an rpm for Apache 2 on 7.3. Normally 
I'd just slap in the RH 9.1 CD and upgrade the installation but the 2 
servers I'm working on are about 1600 miles away. So I downloaded the 
Apache 2.0.40 rpm from RHN (and the various rpms to update the packages 
it needed, and the updated packages the packages needed to update 
needed, ad nauseum). Finally I had everything I needed in one directory 
and typed in "rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm". And I get a "error: failed 
dependencies" message and a long list telling me that package foo.1.rpm 
(being replaced by a foo.2.rpm) is needed by program bar.

So what does this tell me? Is the dependency list mean that rpm 
couldn't tell that a library currently installed would be replaced by a 
newer version?

Or, is there a better way to accomplish this upgrade? Ideas? 
Suggestions?

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