[ILUG] Small problem with RPM

[David Neary]

Hi all,

I have an unusual problem with RPM which is freaking me out a little -
for some new RPMs, it seems the version of RPM that I have installed is
*too new* to use with them. This is (or was when I got it a week ago) a
stock RH 6.2 box. I'm trying to upgrade to gtk+-1.2.8 to get the GIMP
1.1.20 compiling, and I'm getting the fillowing messages:
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[root at euclid PACKAGES]# rpm -q rpm
rpm-3.0.4-0.48
[root at euclid PACKAGES]# rpm -Uvh
gtk+-1.2.8-7.i386.rpm                         
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
RPM
error: gtk+-1.2.8-7.i386.rpm cannot be installed
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Has anyone seen this before, and is there an alternative to installing
an older version of RPM, or compiling from source? Plus, does anyone
know what package provides glib.m4?

Thanks a lot,
Dave.
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		Dave Neary,
	Software engineer, Informix Dublin.
		Ireland.
	Phone: +353-1-409-1357