Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] extracting etehreal-base-0.9.3-1.i386.rpm

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 23:54:05 +0200
Piero,

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:44:50PM +0200, PIERO DE ZEN wrote:
> The problem is that the rpm program available on Suse 7.0 is unable to
> install ethereal-base-0.9.3-1.i386.rpm.
> The error message reported is the following:
> ONLY PACKAGES WITH MAJOR NUMBER <= 3 ARE SUPPORTED BY THIS VERSION OF
> RPM
> ERROR : ethereal-base-0.9.3-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed.
> The version of RPM I'm running is 3.0.4

the rpm version of Suse 7.0 is too old. Unfortunately the version
numbers for the rpm formats do not follow the major rpm-package
numbers (at least in Suse): rpm-3.0.4 is rpm package format 3,
rpm-3.0.6 is format 4. Oh, yes, I should definitely mention that
I'm no expert on rpm formats and may be wrong with the stuff above.

So what can you do? You can try to install a newer version of rpm
(but I doubt that this is an easy task) or run a tools like rpm2cpio
and then just install the resulting cpio archive without the benefits
of an rpm. I also wonder whether the resulting binaries will work
on your system (libpcap, gtk/glic, libc). The most reliable approach
might be to find someone who still has a 7.0 suse system and is wil-
ling to build an rpm for you or to build ethereal yourself.

Ciao
     Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.