The 2.1 kernel and the rpm that comes with DR2 (2.2.2) don't
seem to be 100% compatible.  Among the problems reported are:
 
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<li> rpm -i seems to succeed with the install, but rpm reports
an error and the rpm database does not get updated,
 
<li> Using a newer rpm (2.2.8), problems with loading some of the .rpm 
files in /var/lib/rpm.  Some have reported success with removing
these .rpm files, but I have had no such luck.
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I have not figured out a fix for this problem.  Anyone else?
 


Fred Dushin
 
fadushin@top.cis.syr.edu
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Installing rpm version 2.3 solved the problem for me.<p>
 Sean Harding<address>
 sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu</address>
 
I had to delete the files in /var/lib/rpm and call rpm --initdb and 
rpm --rebuilddb after installing 2.3
 
Scott Lipcon slipcon@cs.jhu.edu
 
A tarball of the latest rpm package can be found at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/rpm/ 
configure followed by make (of version 2.4) finally got things working
on my linux-pmac system.  The pre-compiled source tree linked with static
libraries that I built from 2.4t can be found at:
 ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/users/harry/rpm-2.4.tgz 
 
harry eaton haceaton@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu