Problem installing gtk+-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm

["Donald H. Gudehus" <gudehus mindspring com>]

Hello,

I downloaded gtk+-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm intending to install it on my
RedHat Linux system.  I entered
rpm -i gtk+-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
and got the following errors:

error: file /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 from install of gtk+-1.2.8-1
conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 from install of gtk+-1.2.8-1
conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1
error: file /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gtk+.mo from install of
gtk+-1.2.8-1 conflicts with file from package gtk+-1.2.3-1

I tried renaming all occurances of gtk to gtkold but that didn't help.
I can't find an earlier rpm to uninstall.  When I tried
rpm -U gtk+-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
I got:
error: failed dependencies:
 gtk+ = 1.2.3 is needed by gtk+-devel-1.2.3-1
When I tried
rpm -e gtk+-devel-1.2.3-1
I got
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
 gtk+-devel is needed by gimp-devel-1.0.4-3
 gtk+-devel is needed by gnome-games-devel-1.0.2-11
 gtk+-devel is needed by gnome-libs-devel-1.0.10-2
 gtk+-devel is needed by imlib-devel-1.9.5-5

I am baffled.

Donald Gudehus