[ale] Upgrading to Apache 2 on RH 7.3

[Jim Lynch]

Howard Fore wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting an upgrade to Apache 2.0.x from 1.3.27 on a Redhat 7.3 
> box. RH doesn't appear to offer an rpm for Apache 2 on 7.3. Normally I'd 
> just slap in the RH 9.1 CD and upgrade the installation but the 2 
> servers I'm working on are about 1600 miles away. So I downloaded the 
> Apache 2.0.40 rpm from RHN (and the various rpms to update the packages 
> it needed, and the updated packages the packages needed to update 
> needed, ad nauseum). Finally I had everything I needed in one directory 
> and typed in "rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm". And I get a "error: failed 
> dependencies" message and a long list telling me that package foo.1.rpm 
> (being replaced by a foo.2.rpm) is needed by program bar.
> 
> So what does this tell me? Is the dependency list mean that rpm couldn't 
> tell that a library currently installed would be replaced by a newer 
> version?
> 
> Or, is there a better way to accomplish this upgrade? Ideas? Suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Howard Fore, mylists at hofo.com
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You've just discovered why I'll never install Red Hat on any system I 
own or maintain.  If you gotta have RPM, go to Suse.  Otherwise Debian 
has a much more civil method of handling dependencies.  There appears to 
be a port of apt-get to RH.  That might help, but then again, I suspect 
when you're through you'll have installed most of RH 9....

Jim.