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Re: Colgate's rpm won't install packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antti Kaunisto)
Wed Nov 6 04:26:19 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 12:23:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Antti Kaunisto <sak@kure2.pudis.fi>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Antti Kaunisto wrote:
>
> > I tried to update some packages, but rpm said that
> >
> > unpacking of archive failed
> > error: rpm-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> >
> > You see, I can't even update to new version of rpm!
>
> WAG: You're using a 2.1 kernel which is tickling an RPM bug. You need to
> get RPM 2.2.8 installed through rpm2cpio or rebooting into a 2.0 kernel.
Yep, I _was_ using a 2.1.x kernel, but I got around the problem and
installed 2.0.18.
Antti Kaunisto <sak@kure2.pudis.fi>
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