From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 17:58:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10306 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10293; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:58:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id RAA21208; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:58:30 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id RAA28907; Tue, 12 May 1998 17:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:57:03 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: William Woods cc: FreeBSD Questions , "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Problem installing an RPM file In-Reply-To: <3558D877.954620D2@cybcon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 May 1998, William Woods wrote: >I ave installed the RPM for FreeBSD and am trying to install an RPM file >with rpm -i -v -h xxxxxxx.rpm but I get this message: > >xxxxx.rpm is for a different operating system >error: xxxxxxx.rpm cannot be installed > >Any idea how to fix this problem? Redhat package manager is for Redhat Linux. I am unaware that this has been ported to FreeBSD. This is beside the point. FreeBSD has it's own very excellent method for installing packages. See 'man pkg_add'. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message