From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 22:26:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.millennium20.com (smtp.thecyberguys.net [209.79.190.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BBB37B7FB for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 22:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@bayouhome.net) Received: from gforce.johnson.home (1Cust84.tnt2.covington.la.da.uu.net [63.31.31.84]) by smtp.millennium20.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e454Mk321205; Thu, 4 May 2000 21:22:46 -0700 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA00802; Fri, 5 May 2000 00:26:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 00:26:04 -0500 To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: How to use rpms? Message-ID: <20000505002604.A745@gforce.johnson.home> References: <20000504221356.A17009@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000504221356.A17009@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@nwu.edu on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:13:56PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:13:56PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > I have updated my linux_base and want to use the Linux Xfstt binaries > (the BSD maintainer suggested using the Linux version). Once I > download the xfstt rpm, what next? > > Can I just rpm -i *.rpm, or do I need to give it a little more > of a nudge in terms of where is needs to be installed (i.e., > /compat/linux/)? More of a nudge. You will want to do "rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm". Note that the path, '/var/lib/rpm' will actually go into the specified root, so it will be /compat/linux/var/lib/rpm. Hope that makes sense. You may have to add other rpms to satisfy dependencies. If the rpm wants to run a script you will need to add the --noscripts flag. Does the Linux xfstt binary work better than the FreeBSD port or is that what you are trying to find out? Hope this helps. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message