Re: Upgrade zlib

bolero92@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am using Fedora Core 3. The existing zlib version is 1.2.1
I would like to upgrade zlib to 1.2.3.
Firstly, I uninstall the zlib and zlib-devel by
rpm -e zlib
rpm -e zlib-devel
However, many dependency errors are reported.

Can I just download the source and then overwrite the old package?

Why do it that way. Assuming zlib 1.2.3 will work on FC 3, why not just do

rpm -Uvh zlib zlib-devel

???

Besides, if you do it this way, if it will not work, rpm will tell you so
and not bother anything.

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