I need some help. I am new to Linux. I have been using Solaris mainly and Windows. ... anyways, I originally installed apache2 from a tar file. I heard today that Red Hat had rpm's for it. So I deleted the /usr/local/apache2 folder. Then I ran the rpm file I downloaded from Red Hat's site. I got a WHOLE bunch of errors, that mainly looked like this:

package httpd-2.0.40-11.5 (which is newer than httpd-2.0.40-8) is already installed

file /usr/bin/ab from install of httpd-2.0.40-8 conficts with file from package httpd-2.0.40-11.5

it then made reference to /etc/httpd. So I went ahead and deleted that folder as well, thinking that when I run the httpd rpm file, it would create it, but it didn't.

Any ideas (besides a fresh install) how to get this fixed? Thanks alot

Welcome to LQ. The problem is that the package you downloaded from RH is older than the one you already installed. You could, if you really wanted, force the installation of the RH file (rpm -Uvh xxxx.rpm --force --nodeps) or you could re-install the tar file you had originally. If everything was working fine under the version you installed from the tar file, then why use the rpm?

Did you install apache during the install maybe rpm's try rpm -qa | grep httpd

I did that rpm -qa | grep httpd and found the newer version running, which is httpd-2.0.46-11.5..., but the rpm from Linux was httpd-2.0.46-8, so it was older and wouldn't let me install it... so this is what I typed and it worked

rpm -ivh --oldpackage httpd-2.0.46-8-i386.rpm

Not sure if that is the exact name of the rpm file, but it worked. I appreciate your help!!!