RPM and a major number

[knute]

An acquaintance of mine is trying to install an rpm onto their system and they keep getting an error message.

The command that was used was rpm -Uvh <package name>. Don't ask me what the package name was, cause they didn't say.

The error message is: only packages with major number <=3 are supported by this version of RPM.

They are in China, so I'm wondering if that is some sort of regional coding or something. Their distro is RedFlag.
They are going to try upgrading RPM, but if it is regional coding it won't work!

[ph34r]

That package was made for the latest version of RPM, which I think came out with Redhat 7.0. You would need to either find a package that was "made" using a older version of RPM, or you'd need to upgrade your RPM version.

[luisjpr]

Try: rpm -Uhv <filename>.rpm
not: rpm -Uvh <filename>.rpm

I think the order has importance.