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I'm currently trying to install samba, and after decompressing it the documents describe how to create the rpm installer for it. when I type in
sh makerpms.sh
it returns the error
Unknown RPM version: Version 4.0
I have looked for any kind of an explination on what exactly the problem is, and tried figuring it out with several books, but I'm still lost. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Thanks
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
Rep:
Red Hat upgraded RPM to version 4. Unfortunately it is not fully compatible with version 3, which is what you probably have installed. You may want to upgrade to version 4. The latest version of 3 is somewhat compatible with 4, so you may want to try that first.
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