Re: 0.7.13 RPM-install problem


Subject: Re: 0.7.13 RPM-install problem
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 10:33:54 CST


On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:04:59PM +0100, Hans van Mourik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great stuff -- abiword. I only have a slight problem
> with RPM-install of the latest version. Seems to be
> an RPM-numbering thing (maybe something like "7.13").
>
> # rpm -i abisuite-0.7.13-gtk-RH7.0-1.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: abisuite-0.7.13-gtk-RH7.0-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> # rpm --version RPM version
> RPM version 3.0.4

The RH7.0 RPMs are for RedHat 7, which uses RPM version 4. You need
the RH6.2 rpms, available from the same location. And that is a bad
error message, but "major number" means the version of RPM you have.
           
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