Problem with .rpm upgrade

["Richard Zimmerman" <ke4rit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I finally updated my system with the BSware disk I bought a few weeks
ago.

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mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

cd /mnt/RadHat/RPMS

[root@reliant RPMS]# rpm -f -v -h *.rpm
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    Everything appeared to go fine except for a single error message:

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error: failed dependencies:
        popt is needed by rpm-devel-3.0.2-6.0
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    OK fair enough, I searched out the .rpm

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[root@reliant RPMS]# ls popt*
popt-1.3-1.i386.rpm
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    OK, it's there... I try to install it specifically...

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[root@reliant RPMS]# rpm -i -v -h popt-1.3-1.i386.rpm
popt
##################################################
[root@reliant RPMS]#
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    OK, it's installed, try it again

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[root@reliant RPMS]# rpm -f -v -h popt-1.3-1.i386.rpm
rpm: unexpected query source
[root@reliant RPMS]#
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    OK,  I'm a bonehead and realize it's rpm-devel-3.0.2-6.0 that's looking
for popt.... So I try...

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root@reliant RPMS]# rpm -f -v -h rpm-devel-3.0.2-6.0.rpm
rpm: unexpected query source
[root@reliant RPMS]#
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    OK, Now I'm clueless....

    Hey, I'm impressed!  I remembered how to mount the CD-ROM after not
touching the machine for so long!

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[root@reliant RPMS]# uptime
2:42am  up 68 days,  8:54,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
[root@reliant RPMS]#
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    I'd be happy if my Winbloze machine could even manage a week of uptime!

    Any help is appreciated!

    Thanks!

    Richard "Goose" Zimmerman