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Re: RPM/Zircon

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Wed Nov 6 03:02:11 1996

To: jjdfri@txdirect.net
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 05 Nov 1996 19:27:24 +0100
In-Reply-To: DERR's message of Tue, 05 Nov 1996 11:10:56 -0600
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

DERR <jjdfri@txdirect.net> writes:

> I recently tried to install the .rpm version of Zircon

I made that one.

> but I got an error message saying that my version of RPM only
> supports rpm's with the number 2 or higher.
> Is my version of RPM too OLD? Or too NEW? 

It's too old. You need a newer version of RPM. Preferably 2.2.x

>And if it's too old, is the version of RPM on the RedHat site the one
>I need?

Yes. Read ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/RPM/README for info on upgrading.


> I'm running 3.0.3 with the 2.0.18 kernel.

The Zircon RPM won't run on stock 3.0.3. It needs Tcl 7.5.


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