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From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>
To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: rpm question
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"Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> writes:

>  Does any one know of a way to extract an rpm without it installing into the
> paths that it should use but to the current directory. I have a mandrake linux
> 		    package that are fonts. I tried to do:
> 
> 			        rpm -i --nodeps
> but it gave me the error the "the package was for a different file system." I
> 		    don't understand what to do with that?

try --force :)

Otherwise, open the rpm using midnight commander and extract
away. Last option would be to grab the source RPM and get the fonts
out of the tarball in that.

HTH

-- 
Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>

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