From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 09:46:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582A816A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.romat.com (mail.romat.com [212.143.245.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0273243D49 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:45:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilad_bsd@romat.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C05EB2A9; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:45:55 +0200 (IST) Received: from mail.romat.com ([192.168.1.10]) by localhost (ladon.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22540-08; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:45:54 +0200 (IST) Received: from romat.com (unknown [192.168.1.199]) by mail.romat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C249EB2B8; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:45:54 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <3FF0684F.4010109@romat.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:45:51 +0200 From: Gilad Rom Organization: Romat Telecom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederick Thomas References: <20031229174118.25423.qmail@web60206.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031229174118.25423.qmail@web60206.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at romat.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: trouble installing rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:46:15 -0000 Shalom Frederick, Why not use ports? Try to cd to /usr/ports/archivers/rpm and type 'make install'. That should do the trick. (Although the ported version of RPM is not of the 4.x branch). Could you possibly send a longer description of the problem? ("not able to ./configure") is not a very clear description... Gilad. Frederick Thomas wrote: > shalom, > I have a question which I hope that you can help me with. I just tried to intstall > rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz on my system[freebsd 4.8] and have not been able to get it to > ./configure let alone make. Is there a special dir, ( /usr/compat/linux?), or dependencies > that are required to compile the tarball? My main reason for trying top install a package > manager is that I've had problems with gmetadom[lastest] and various other tarballs with > limited success. I am attempting to teach myself about unix and could just use a pointer > in the right direction. Thank you for your time... > > > nikita_the_jew@yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - Get your photo on the big screen in Times Square > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >