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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
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Subject: Re: Dependency problems installing Pervasive SQL for Linux
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:48:13 +0000
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OK, after reading through the man page for rpm I managed to get around
this problem by using --root /usr/compat/linux when I then got a complaint
about "wrong operating system" which I solved by using the --ignoreos
option to rpm.

I'm now trying to figure out where the heck it installed everything and how
to execute it ;)

-Bill

On Wednesday 05 September 2001 18:15, Bill Moran wrote:
> We're doing some tests to see if we can make this work. The other servers
> here are FreeBSD, and we don't want to install a Linux one if we don't have
> to ;)
>
> Fresh install of FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, with Linux compat installed and
> working. Using the rpm manager from the ports, I try to do:
>
> rpm -ivh Pervasive.SQL-7.90.243.007.2000i.i386.rpm
>
> and it complains:
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	/bin/sh	is needed by Pervasive.SQL-7.90.243.007-2000i
>
> I'm quite lost at this one ... /usr/compat/linux/bin contained a link "sh"
> that linked to bash in the same directory. /bin contains the FreeBSD
> version of sh. I tried deleting /usr/compat/linux/bin/sh and copying
> /usr/compat/linux/bin/bash -> /usr/compat/linux/bin/sh but the error didn't
> change.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> -Bill
>
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