From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 23:50:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26667 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26658 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:50:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA33528; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:50:12 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id XAA28649; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Gerald E. Bennett" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RPM In-Reply-To: <360F0AFF.EB1A2D7@silres.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Gerald E. Bennett wrote: >I just installed Linux and RPM using the /usr/misc/ports/rmp port > >Now when I use rpm: > >bash-2.01# rpm -ivh executor-libc5-demo-2.0w-1.i386.rpm >failed to open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm > >error: cannot open //var/local/lib/rpm/packages.rpm RPM is pretty linux specific. You may have better luck asking a linux forum how to set it up. Just off the top of my head, I would say that /var/local doesn't even exist on your FreeBSD system. This is just a guess. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message