install error

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  4, 2001, "Steven Wagner" <bomber33@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am running RHv6.1 and rpm 3.*. When I try to install the 2.96*
> build of gcc, I get an error that says something like "this version
> of rpm only supports major numbers <= 3." I have tried to upgrade my
> version of rpm to 4.04*, but it won't support that major number. I
> seem to be in a catch 22 here, any help or links to help would be
> awesome.

This has nothing to do with GCC, but...  Try the rpm-4.0.2 update for
Red Hat Linux 6.x, available at ftp://updates.redhat.com .  This one
is supposed to be installable with rpm 3.x.

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