does this mean I need a newer version of rpm program? I'm running Linux-Mandrake 7.1 GPL .


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[root@localhost /tmp]# rpm -qpi ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
query of ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.i386.rpm failed
[root@localhost /tmp]#

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Thanx in advance.

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"Onismus Radebe" <onismusrATabsaDOTcoDOTza@za> wrote in message
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>does this mean I need a newer version of rpm program? I'm running
Linux-Mandrake 7.1 GPL .

Yes. why ?

you might be suprised to find that 4 is NOT <= 3. 4 is > 3.


here ends your free lessons.

"Leon." <noemail@noemail.noemail.com> wrote in message
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> "Onismus Radebe" <onismusrATabsaDOTcoDOTza@za> wrote in message
> news:3ffb9da5$0$216@hades.is.co.za...
> >does this mean I need a newer version of rpm program? I'm running
> Linux-Mandrake 7.1 GPL .
>
> Yes. why ?
>
> you might be suprised to find that 4 is NOT <= 3. 4 is > 3.
>
>
> here ends your free lessons.
>
>

It's my understanding that Mandrake is using the same package manager as
redhat. So I downloaded rpm version 4 (for redhat 7.2) and i got the
dependency errors. Maybe I should also mention that I've been using linux
for 3 months so I'm still a newbie.

[root@localhost /tmp]# rpm -i --test rpm-4.0.3-1.03.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
popt = 1.6.3 is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
[root@localhost /tmp]#


Thanx in advance

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"Onismus Radebe" <onismusrATabsaDOTcoDOTza@za> wrote in message
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>
> "Leon." <noemail@noemail.noemail.com> wrote in message
> news:3ffbd1b4$1@news.rivernet.com.au...
> > "Onismus Radebe" <onismusrATabsaDOTcoDOTza@za> wrote in message
> > news:3ffb9da5$0$216@hades.is.co.za...
> > >does this mean I need a newer version of rpm program? I'm running
> > Linux-Mandrake 7.1 GPL .
> >
> > Yes. why ?
> >
> > you might be suprised to find that 4 is NOT <= 3. 4 is > 3.
> >
> >
> > here ends your free lessons.
> >
> >
>
> It's my understanding that Mandrake is using the same package manager as
> redhat. So I downloaded rpm version 4 (for redhat 7.2) and i got the
> dependency errors. Maybe I should also mention that I've been using linux
> for 3 months so I'm still a newbie.
>
> [root@localhost /tmp]# rpm -i --test rpm-4.0.3-1.03.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> popt = 1.6.3 is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
> libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by rpm-4.0.3-1.03
> [root@localhost /tmp]#

You can't just swap random packages from RedHat releases into Mandrake. You
probably need to recompile from the SRPM, in order to address the library
dependencies which will be fairly distinct for your particular distribution.

But why not use the latest Mandrake RPM package instead?