[plug] stuffed rpm

[Kevin Shackleton]

Rob Dunne wrote:

> Hi list,
> I seem to have killed rpm 
> # rpm -ivh Bastille-1.2.0-1.1mdk.noarch.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> 
> # rpm -q rpm
> rpm-3.0.2-6.0
> rpm-3.0.4-0.48
> 
> # rpm -iU rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x.i386.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libdb-3.1.so   is needed by rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x
>         libpopt.so.0   is needed by rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x
> 
> rpm -iU db3-3.1.17-4.5x.i386.rpm 
> rpm -iU popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm       
> 
> # rpm -iU rpm-4.0.3-0.6.6x.i386.rpm 
> cannot remove /usr/lib/rpm - directory not empty
> 
> #rpm -ivh Bastille-1.2.0-1.1mdk.noarch.rpm
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> 
I had a similar problem a couple of months ago - someone kindly pointed 
out an rpm version that was new enough but not too new, worked fine.  
Check the plug archives.

Cheers,

K.