From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 29 17:54: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8A537B422 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000830005324.VURQ8556.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:53:24 -0700 Message-ID: <39ABF8C6.C4B41F21@home.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:54:14 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hansen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Linux Compatibility Mode References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have tried to use the linux rpm in order to install the gtk+1.2 libraries (needed by Mozilla), but was never successful. The linux rpm program consistantly failed at unpacking the archives. So I would like to also hear if anyone has had success. I have searched for documentation on the Linux emulation part of FreeBSD and have come up with nothing. Rob Stephen Hansen wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.1, and for some reason, the 'rpm' program/etc is not > looking in /compat/linux/var/lib/rpm, the 'shadow' fs that Linux proggies > are susposed to use. Instead, it's looking in my basic /var/lib/rpm. > > Am I suspose to have a symbolic link in my /var? Since 'rpm' isn't really > a Linux application, but instead is a port -- yes? So it won't look in the > shadow fs. > > How should this be setup? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message