Sunday, July 2, 2000

Stupid RPM Tricks -- 5:59 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Loyal reader, Neil S., emailed me about my article on installing the NVIDIA XFree 4.0 drivers. He was trying it in Red Hat 6.2 using the latest XFree packages (4.0-0.19) from ftp.redhat.com. When he tried to install them he got this error message:

only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: .rpm cannot be installed

After reproducing that error message by downloading one of the 4.0-0.19 XFree packages, I did a quick search of Deja.com. Apparently Red Hat upgraded to RPM 4.x for all their new packages. The problem is that the new RPM 4.x package is in 4.x format so the version that ships with Red Hat 6.2 can't even read it to do an upgrade!

Fortunately, one intrepid person found this version of RPM 3.x which can also read 4.x packages. Download and install that, then you can install all the new packages on Red Hat's FTP (even the 4.x version of RPM *cough*).

News for 07/02/2000

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