RPM compatability

[Paul King]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 09:51 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Perhaps alien doesn't know old rpm formats.  I think they are on version
> 4 or 5 by now of the rpm format.  That one might be version 1 or 2.
> 
> Of course you may also have a corrupt file.
> 
> What do these say:
> file wp-6.0-1.i386.rpm

wp-6.0-1.i386.rpm: RPM v1 bin i386 wp-6.0-1

> rpm -qpl wp-6.0-1.i386.rpm
> 

no output (just goes back to the shell prompt).

If the above format, version 1, is correct, then the fact that I am
running a rpm 4.4.1 may be the problem. Another poster suggested that I
find the source for the compatable rpm, and run that rpm instead.

Paul

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