From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 10:43:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06349 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 10:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06320; Wed, 13 May 1998 10:43:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01471; Wed, 13 May 1998 10:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 10:43:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White 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? Twice in one week? Hm. ... Try the --ignoreos flag and see the rpm help message. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message