From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 5:47:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-in-02.piro.net (mail-out-01.piro.net [194.64.31.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF7937BAD1 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 05:47:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com) Received: from nil.science-factory.com (ScienceFactory-atm1-153.piro.net [195.135.137.205]) by mail-in-02.piro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/PN-991208) with ESMTP id OAA13464; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:47:46 +0200 Received: by nil.science-factory.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id E69EA1F43; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:42:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc van Woerkom To: caj@lfn.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Craig Johnston on Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:25:15 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: corel photopaint for linux References: Message-Id: <20000726124224.E69EA1F43@nil.science-factory.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:42:24 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It says Photopaint requires redhat or debian package management to install. > Will I be able to install this on FreeBSD 4.0? If you look at the Linux emulation system, you will note that it uses RedHat libraries. So any package is very likely to run after some fiddling. The rpm tool has been ported to FreeBSD, it is somewhere buried in the ports collection, so it might be of use to you. When porting a Linux application to FreeBSD, there is one fact to keep in mind: A Linux program running under FreeBSD perceives your filesystem hierarchy differently than a FreeBSD program! The /usr/compat/linux/usr/* stuff will be seen as /usr/*! You can test this out easily by firing up a Linux binary of bash: /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash As this is a Linux program, it will see paths like any other Linux program. I would recommend to turn to the freebsd-emulators mailing list for deeper questions on Linux emulation. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message