From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 18:03:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:03:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cybcon.com (root@cybcon.com [205.147.64.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11177; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from cybcon.com (support1.cybcon.com [205.147.76.126]) by cybcon.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id SAA18640; Tue, 12 May 1998 18:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3558F1BC.D9B865BC@cybcon.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:05:00 -0700 From: William Woods X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: FreeBSD Questions , "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Problem installing an RPM file References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason C. Wells wrote: > > 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/ Yes, there is a port of RPM for FreeBSD. But, I would love to use pkg_add, point me to a package of KDE Beta4.... -- William Woods - wwoods@cybcon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message