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Re: Quick question on RPM ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William P. Maguire)
Tue Nov 19 22:24:22 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:24:56 -0700
From: "William P. Maguire" <maguire@wiley.holbrook.k12.az.us>
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Allen Francom wrote:
>
> I'm not ready to do the 4.0 thing, however I'd like to start using the
> newer RPM 2.x stuff.
>
> I'm a little confused as to exactly how to upgrade to the 2.x RPM.
>
> I did manage to get a new rpm-2.0.8.tar.gz (something close to that).
>
> It appears there is a process I should be following when upgrading this
> thing... And I tried for awhile but couldn't find anything talking about it.
>
> It has probably gone through here before and I appologize for missing it.
>
> ???
>
> THX
> -AEF
I assume you have the shrink-wrapped 3.0.3 rpm. First you need to
upgrade to 2.1.1 rpm. Then you can upgade to the others. That
long-winded version is for the older rpm version. You don't need to do
the cpio stint and all that jaz. Just grab the 2.1.1 rpm and rpm -Uvh.
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