POPT conflict when installing YUM on Fedora 6

[gilcpd]

Hey guys,
I hope someone can help me, I'm about 2 weeks working on this server to install yum :'(... I know lame but I'm LAME in Linux.

Im almost getting there, the dependencies are reduced to 2: rpm-python and yum-fastestmirror.

But installing rpm-python its driving me crazy... it keeps saying:

[root@03044f2 ~]# rpm -Uhv popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm
warning: popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
Preparing...                
        file popt.h from install of popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5 conflicts with file from package popt-1.10.2-32

I found the package (popt-1.10.2-32) and it says it's already installed:

[root@03044f2 ~]# rpm -Uhv popt-1.10.2-32.i386.rpm
warning: popt-1.10.2-32.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Preparing...                
        package popt-1.10.2-32 is already installed

I don't know what to do know.. I read somethings about forcing rpm --force but I'm afraid it will trigger another error... since this is a server I prefer not to play smart with it.

PLEASE can someone help me?
Thanks in advance.

[Roxoff]

You're trying to install conflicing versions of popt, try doing:

rpm -e popt-1.10.2-32
rpm -ivh popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5

If this is a CentOS or RedHat server, shouldn't it already have been installed with yum during the system setup?

[gilcpd]

I wish!
This is a VPS from NetSol and they don't make your life not a bit easier.
I'm gonna try your suggestion and get back here!

Thank you very much

[gilcpd]

I was finally able to install it .
I reseted the server to a "virgin" state and reinstalled all the packages as fc6.i386.rpm packs.

Buuuuuuuuuut:

[root@03044f2 ~]# yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpm/_rpmmodule.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.4.3 (#1, Oct 1 2006, 17:59:36)
[GCC 4.1.1 20060928 (Red Hat 4.1.1-2]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
YumFaq

[gilcpd]

AHAAAAAAA!!! Lol just had an "AHA" moment!
I've been installing i386 packages and my CPU is X86_64.
So I'm going to recover the "virgin" state backup and install all the packages as 64!

Xssin fingers!

[gilcpd]

WOHOOO! Got it!
I was really instally all wrong, wrong distro packs and types.
Now that I installed the X86_64 packs it installed with noooo errors.
I spent sometime updating the repositories, but now it works...

The last part is to update my HPHP but its stuck on a library that doesnt install:
libcurl.so.3()(64bit).
I found a package that has it... but it says that its already installed:

[root@03044f2 packs]# rpm -Uhv curl-7.15.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
warning: curl-7.15.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package curl-7.15.5-1.fc6 is already installed

[gilcpd]

Geez! Im still stuck on this part now!
I cant update PHP to PHP-5.2 because of this library... one thing that might me screwing up the whole thing is that when I installed yum I had to update the Repos files and since I couldn't find any Fedora6 repo I added the Fedora 7 URL...
Is it what is not allowing me to update?
Does anybody knows how to upgrade from FC6 to FC7 on a VPS using YUM?

I'm reading the tutto on Fedora.org but there seems to have lots of dependencies not working.

Any suggestion?

[Roxoff]

Both Fedora 6 and 7 are no longer supported. You may find yum repositories to support them, but most will not exist any more. You could get hold of an installer DVD image, upload the rpm's, create a local repository and upgrade from there. But this is very complicated, and it's something I wouldn't do.

Can you not reset to a 'virgin' state using a newer version of Fedora? 12 is the current version, 11 is still supported, while 10 is available in the repositories but unsupported.