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Re: failed rpm upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Sun Oct 27 10:03:44 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:01:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, John Heij wrote:
> I have been trying to upgrade rpm 2.0.11 with rpm-2_1_.rpm, but I have
> been unable to succeed as I only get "segmentation fault" error
> messages. Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this.
Are you trying to install the source package? If so, it won't work
due to brokenness in 2.0.11. You need to install a binary and use the
new binary to install the source.
Erik
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