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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:36:19 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: "Pranav A. Desai" <pdesai1@cs.uh.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cannot install rpms with linux emulator
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References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0207311407590.6012-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0208171654400.8818-100000@themis.cs.uh.edu>
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:16:11PM -0500, Pranav A. Desai wrote:
> Hi !
>    I am not able to install rpm packages on my FreeBSD 4.4. They all fail
> on some dependencies. e.g.
> 
> bash# rpm -i --ignoreos --dbpath /var/lib/rpm --root /compat/linux
> gawk-3.1.0-4.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	/bin/mktemp is needed by gawk-3.1.0-4
> 	rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by gawk-3.1.0-4
> 	rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by gawk-3.1.0-4
> 	libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)   is needed by gawk-3.1.0-4

Why not get the real thing?

    # cd /usr/ports/lang/gawk
    # make install clean

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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