Problems installing RPM's

[PureKrome]

Hello.

I'm using redhat 6.2

I've got this problem when i try to do -> rpm -ivh <rpm file ... eg.. mkisofs-1.9-2.i386.rpm>

it reports..

[root@leia RPM]# rpm -qi mkisofs
package mkisofs is not installed
[root@leia RPM]# rpm -ivh mkisofs-1.9-2.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: mkisofs-1.9-2.i386.rpm cannot be installed
[root@leia RPM]#

so i downloaded .. rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm

and i get this..


[root@leia RPM]# rpm -q rpm
rpm-3.0.4-0.48
[root@leia RPM]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
[root@leia RPM]#


**HELP PLEASE**

-PK-

[pbharris]

you can upgrade the verison of RPM you have or get a different version of mkisofs
this is the original verion which came with redhat 6.2

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mkisofs-1.8-2.i386.rpm

[pbharris]

ah, you can also force things
rpm -ivh --force package.rpm

i see you already tried to install the new verison of rpm

[PureKrome]

Originally posted by pbharris:
ah, you can also force things
rpm -ivh --force package.rpm

i see you already tried to install the new verison of rpm

[root@leia RPM]# rpm -vhi --force rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
[root@leia RPM]#


didn't work..

-AND- i need to install mkisofs-1.9-2.i386.rpm (VERSION 1.9 or greater for some program to work..)

*PLEASE HELP*

-PK-