[lug] Redhat 6.2 RPM v3 to RPM v4

[John Hernandez]

Try getting the RPM4 SRPM (from the roswell beta on ftp.redhat.com), and then do:

rpm --rebuild <rpm-4-whatever.srpm>

rpm -U /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<rpm-4.whatever.rpm>

Greg Horne wrote:
> 
> When I was upgrading some packages on my system a few said that I need rpm
> version 4.  So I go to install version 4 and the rpm for it tells me I need
> libdb-3.1 and libpopt.so.0.  I found the packages for them (db3-3.1 and
> popd-1.6-4)  When I tried to install those, I was told that rpm can only
> install packages with a major number <= 3.  I'm stuck in a loop!  I can't
> install rpm4 because it's dependencies need rpm 4 to install.  What do I do?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> 
> Greg
> 
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