rpm problem gnucash-1.4-11 dependences

[Linas Vepstas]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:54:00PM +0200, Alan Smith was heard to remark:
> 
> "Only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of
> rpm"
> 
> My version of rpm is   3.0.4
> 
> My question is - which version of rpm should I be using?
> 
> I downloaded package  rpm-4.0-26mdk.i586   and when I tried to install I
> got the same error message.

I went through something just like this in redhat a year ago.
You need to download rpm-3.0.5 or rpm-3.0.16 or something like that
(the newest rpm 3.0.x) and install that first.   Then you can install 
rpm-4.0.  The problem is that the old rpm's don't know how to install
the new rpm's, and rpm-4.0 requires a newer rpm installer...

(your problem has nothing to do with guile or gnucash).

--linas